David Lendrum, co-president for the Southeast Alaska Master Gardeners Association this year, sent this invitation to Sitka gardeners about the Southeast Alaska Gardeners Conference and Garden Tours on May 20-23 in Juneau: I would like to invite the Sitka local foods community to our biennial Southeast Garden Conference on May 20-23 at the University of [...]
Archive for May, 2010
• Southeast Alaska Gardeners Conference and Garden Tours take place May 20-23 in Juneau
Posted in education, Gardens, Uncategorized, tagged Bob Gorman, Dan Heims, David Lendrum, Elizabeth Kunibe, Florence Welsh, Landscape Alaska, RainTree Nursery, Sam Benowitz, Southeast Alaska Gardeners Conference and Garden Tours, Southeast Alaska Master Gardeners Association, Terra Nova Nurseries, The Welsh Family Forget-Me-Not Gardens, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on May 7, 2010 |
• Sitka Seafood Festival seeks local recipes for fundraising cookbook
Posted in Fish and game, Recipes, Sitka Seafood Festival, Uncategorized, tagged Alicia Peavey, cod, culinary delights, education, encouragement, entertainment, fish, food, food security, halibut, kids' activities, Linda Olson, music, Recipes, salmon, seafood, seafood cookbook, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods, wild seafood on May 7, 2010 |
Do you have a favorite seafood recipe? A recipe you are willing to share? One that you would like to see published in a cookbook? We want it! The inaugural Sitka Seafood Festival will be Friday and Saturday, Aug. 6-7, 2010. It will be a celebration focusing on Alaska’s wild seafood through entertainment, education and [...]
• Sitka Community Schools opens registration for Blatchley Community Garden
Posted in food security, Gardens, Uncategorized, tagged Blatchley Community Garden, Blatchley Middle School, Dave Neutzel, food, food security, garden, Hames Athletic and Wellness Center, produce, Scott McAdams, Sitka, Sitka Community Schools, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, vegetables on May 6, 2010 |
Sitka Community Schools has opened registration for the 2010 Blatchley Community Garden located behind Blatchley Middle School. Potential gardeners can register for a plot from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday through May 28 at the Sitka Community Schools office at Hames Athletic and Wellness Center. Availability of garden plots is limited, [...]
• SEARHC Employee Wellness Team builds vegetable garden at Sitka campus
Posted in Gardens, Uncategorized, tagged community garden, Doug Osborne, employee garden, food, food security, garden, Kerry MacLane, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, SEARHC, SEARHC Employee Wellness Team, SEARHC Green Team, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) on May 5, 2010 |
The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Employee Wellness Team is building a new community garden for employees on its Sitka campus. The vegetable garden is located on an unused patch of land on the lower part of SEARHC’s Sitka campus, between the employee fitness center and daycare facilities and across the street from the [...]
• Volunteers prepare St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm garden beds for planting parties later this month
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Uncategorized, tagged community garden, Doug Osborne, food security, garden, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, produce, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm on May 4, 2010 |
About a dozen volunteers held a work party on Saturday, May 1, to help get the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden ready for planting later this month. The volunteers pulled weeds, cleared rocks and sticks from the garden beds, mixed sand and compost into the soil, built a new pea patch, transplanted some rhubarb [...]
• Alaska Department of Fish and Game releases first fishing report of 2010 season
Posted in Fish and game, Uncategorized, tagged Alaska Department of Fish and Game, chinook salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, dog salmon, fish, halibut, humpback salmon, king salmon, pink salmon, red salmon, salmon, silver salmon, Sitka, sockeye salmon, sport fishing, Sport Harvest Rates on May 3, 2010 |
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has released its first sport fishing report for the 2010 season. The Sport Harvest Rates for the Week of April 26-May 2, 2010, includes a sampling of marine boat creel surveys from the ports of Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Juneau and Yakutat. The current report looks at chinook [...]

