Two work parties are scheduled to prepare the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm for planting later this spring. The work parties are from 1-3 p.m. this Saturday, April 17, and again from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, May 1. St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm is located behind the See House behind St. Peter’s By The Sea Episcopal Church [...]
Archive for April, 2010
• Work parties scheduled for St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged community garden, community greenhouse, Doug Osborne, food, garden, Linda Wilson, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Planting parties, Seaview Gardens, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, work parties on April 15, 2010 |
• Sitka gardeners to meet Tuesday, April 20, at UAS-Sitka Campus
Posted in education, Gardens, tagged Bob Gorman, cabbage, carrots, Cheryl Stromme, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, Eve's Farm, Evening Star Grutter, food, garden, lettuce, potatoes, produce, Sitka, Sitka Gardeners Club, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Sitka Gardeners Club’s monthly get-together takes place from 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, in Room 106 at the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on Japonski Island. The get-together provides a venue for gardeners of all types, interests and skills to informally exchange ideas, information, seeds and growing tips. Share and learn from other [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on Saturday, April 17
Posted in education, Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Peavey, clams, cod, crab, education, encouragement, fish, food, Haines, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, kids' activities, Lily Herwald, Linda Olson, music, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, oysters, Phyllis Hackett, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, Southeast Alaska State Fair, subsistence, traditional foods on April 12, 2010 |
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee is 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 17, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. During the April 10 meeting, the committee voted Lily Herwald in as secretary and Phyllis Hackett as bookkeeper. The committee also decided to book “NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes,” a four-man juggling, acrobatic, martial [...]
• Sitka subsistence herring egg harvest in progress
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Native Knowledge Network, Betty Baines, caribou, commercial harvest, Ed Ronco, education, encouragement, food, food security, Haida, Heen Kweix' (Bob Gamble), hemlock branches, herring, herring eggs, herring quota, Kasiana Island, KCAW-Raven Radio, Kiksadi News, Michael Baines, Pauline Duncan, sac roe herring, Sitka, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, subsistence, subsistence harvest, Tlingít, traditional foods, Tsimshian on April 7, 2010 |
If it’s snowing in April, it probably means it’s time for the subsistence herring egg harvest in Sitka. This is one of the most important signs of spring in Sitka, especially for the Tlingít, Haida and Tsimshian people who lived in Southeast Alaska long before the first Europeans showed up. On the KCAW-Raven Radio news [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on Saturday, April 10
Posted in education, Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Peavey, cod, crab, education, encouragement, fish, food, food security, halibut, oysters, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods on April 7, 2010 |
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee is 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 10, at the Bayview Wine Bar (on the second floor of the Bayview Building on Lincoln Street). During the April 5 meeting, the steering committee decided to hold the inaugural Sitka Seafood Festival on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 6-7. [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee meets tonight (April 5)
Posted in education, Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Peavey, cod, education, encouragement, fish, food security, halibut, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods on April 5, 2010 |
The Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Monday, April 5) at Harrigan Centennial Hall. The meeting times have been moving around in recent weeks as they try to find a time that can get local restaurant people involved. Tonight’s meeting will finalize a sponsorship letter for fundraising, discuss a raffle [...]
• As you build your garden, don’t forget to plant a row for the hungry
Posted in education, food security, Gardens, greenhouse, tagged Anchorage Daily News, donated food, education, encouragement, food security, garden, Garden Writers Association Foundation, Garden Writers Association of America, Jeff Lowenfels, Kerry MacLane, Linda Wilson, market, Plant A Row For Bean's Café, Plant a Row for the Hungry, produce, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, U.S. Department of Agriculture, WIC (Women Infants Children) supplemental food program on April 1, 2010 |
As you start to plan your garden for this spring and summer, don’t forget to Plant A Row For The Hungry. The Plant A Row For The Hungry program (also known as Plant A Row or PAR) is a national campaign by the Garden Writers Association of America that got its start in Alaska. In [...]
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