(NOTE: A version of this letter to the editor appeared in the Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, edition of the Daily Sitka Sentinel.) The Sitka Local Foods Network would like to take this end-of-the-year opportunity to thank some of the folks who helped Sitka get more local food into the lives of our residents. Helping us [...]
Archive for December, 2011
• Sitka Local Foods Network says thanks to those who helped with September’s Running of the Boots
Posted in Running of the Boots, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged education, encouragement, food security, Jude Reis, kids' activities, Kiki Norman, Laura Schmidt, Let's Grow Sitka, Lynnda Strong, music, produce, projects, Running of the Boots, Sheila Finkenbinder, Sitka, Sitka Blues Band, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Global Warming Group, Sitka Local Foods Network, XtraTuf rubber boots, XtraTufs, Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop on December 30, 2011 |
• Sitka Composting Project to meet on Monday, Dec. 12
Posted in composting, education, tagged Blatchley Community Garden, community garden, education, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Justin Overdevest, Sitka, Sitka Composting Project, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Recycling Center on December 9, 2011 |
The next meeting of the Sitka Composting Project (aka Sick-a Waste) will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12, at Harrigan Centennial Hall in the Pestchouroff Room. The group decided during its Dec 6 meeting that since we are so close to the holidays and the proximity to a couple of grant deadlines by [...]
• Rising grocery prices raise food insecurity concerns in Sitka
Posted in education, food security, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, tagged Alaska Food Cost Survey, Artigras, berries, Blatchley Community Garden, Charles Bingham, cod, community garden, community greenhouse, Doug Osborne, education, Ellen Frankenstein, encouragement, farmers market, Feeding America 2011, fish, food, food insecurity, food security, garden, Kerry MacLane, Kids Count, Let's Grow Sitka, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Maybelle Filler, potatoes, produce, Robin Grewe, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, subsistence, traditional foods, vegetables on December 9, 2011 |
(NOTE: The following letter to the editor appeared in the Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, edition of the Daily Sitka Sentinel.) Dear Editor, Many in Sitka are feeling squeezed not only by rising fuel costs, but also by escalating food costs. The September 2011 Alaska Food Cost Survey, conducted by University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Wednesday, Dec. 7
Posted in composting, education, food security, Let's Grow Sitka, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Food Co-Op, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Food Policy Council, Blatchley Community Garden, community garden, community greenhouse, fish, FISH (Fish In Schools Hooray), food security, garden, getting more locally caught fish served in Sitka schools, Let's Grow Sitka, planting 200 apple trees, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Food Co-Op, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Unitarian Fellowship Building on December 7, 2011 |
The Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors will hold its monthly meeting from 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the upstairs offices at the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Building, 408 Marine St. Key topics for the meeting include a recap of the recent SLFN board retreat, an update on the Sitka Community Greenhouse [...]
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