There will be St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm work parties from 4:30-6 p.m. every Wednesday afternoon and from 3-5 p.m. every Saturday afternoon throughout the summer (when there aren’t Sitka Farmers Markets scheduled). While most of the garden has been planted and veggies are growing, there is a lot of maintenance work needed to keep the [...]
Archive for June, 2010
• St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm hosts Saturday and Wednesday work parties throughout the summer
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Farmers Market, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged carrots, community garden, Doug Osborne, encouragement, farmers market, food, food security, fresh vegetables, garden, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, potatoes, produce, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm on June 29, 2010 | Comments Off
• Sitka Seafood Festival to hold picnic with Monday’s steering committee meeting
Posted in Fish and game, food security, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Anchorage, cod, education, encouragement, fish, food security, halibut, Halibut Point Recreation Area, Harrigan Centennial Hall, music, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, Orso Ristorante, Robert Kinneen, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods, Trampled By Turtles on June 27, 2010 | Comments Off
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee will feature a picnic in addition to the business part of the meeting. The picnic should help spice up the planning process and boost attendance. The next steering committee meeting takes place at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 28, at Halibut Point Recreation Area’s main [...]
• Palmer-based CSA looks into distributing produce boxes to Southeast customers
Posted in Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, tagged A & M Farms, Anchorage, Arthur and Michelle Keyes, berries, carrots, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), food, food security, Full Circle Farm CSA, Glacier Valley Farm CSA, Kenai Peninsula, Mat-Su Valley, Palmer, potatoes, produce, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, South Anchorage Farmers Market on June 17, 2010 | Comments Off
Glacier Valley Farm CSA, which is based in the Palmer area, is considering expanding its distribution network to include some Southeast communities, including Sitka. Glacier Valley currently distributes its produce in the Anchorage, Mat-Su Valley and Kenai Peninsula areas. However, a customer service rep named Nelli said the CSA has been receiving a lot of [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet June 22
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, tagged Alaska Journal of Commerce, cod, fish, food, food security, halibut, Orso Ristorante, Robert Kinneen, rockfish, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods on June 14, 2010 | Comments Off
The Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee’s next meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 22, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Each of the steering committee’s smaller committees should have held meetings since the large group met in May, and those updates will be discussed at this meeting. The Sitka Seafood Festival takes place on [...]
• Wealth of resources available to learn about traditional foods
Posted in education, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Division of Public Health, Alaska Native Knowledge Network, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Alaska Natural History Program, ANTHC Cancer Program, berries, Carol R. Biggs, Dolly Garza, Eat Smart Alaska, education, encouragement, food, Kayaaní Commission, Pauline Duncan, produce, Renae Mathson, SEARHC Diabetes Program, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, UAF Sea Grant Program on June 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Living in Southeast Alaska, Sitka residents are exposed to a wealth of traditional foods that grow in our forests or can be found along our beaches. But many Sitka residents aren’t familiar with which plants are safe to eat, and which plants they should avoid. They also aren’t familiar with when are the prime times [...]
• Alaska Permaculture Guild to host state’s first permaculture design certification course
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged Ageya Wilderness School, Alaska Permaculture Community, Alaska Permaculture Design Course, Alaska Permaculture Guild, holistic design system, Homer, permaculture design certification course on June 14, 2010 | Comments Off
The Alaska Permaculture Guild will host Alaska’s first permaculture design certification course on Aug. 9-22, at the Ageya Wilderness School in Homer. This complete, 72-hour course (two weeks) lays the foundation for understanding and using natural principles to design abundant, sustainable systems that provide for basic human needs of healthy foods, housing, energy and meaningful [...]
• St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm hosts Saturday and Wednesday work parties throughout the summer
Posted in Gardens, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged berries, carrots, community garden, Doug Osborne, education, encouragement, farmers market, food, food security, garden, harvesting, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, market, potatoes, produce, radishes, replanting, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, thinning crops, watering, weeding, weekly on June 8, 2010 | Comments Off
There will be St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm work parties from 4:30-6 p.m. 5-6:30 p.m. every Wednesday afternoon and from 3-5 p.m. 2-4 p.m. every Saturday afternoon (when there aren’t Sitka Farmers Markets scheduled) throughout the summer. (PLEASE NOTE CORRECTED TIMES) While most of the garden has been planted and veggies are growing, there is a [...]
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