Please join the Sitka Local Foods Network for its annual meeting and potluck dinner at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall (408 Marine St., parking lot is off Spruce Street). Join us as we honor our four years of existence and prepare for our fifth year. During this [...]
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• Sitka Local Foods Network hosts annual meeting and potluck dinner on Saturday, Jan. 21
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, composting, education, fish in school lunches project, Food choices, food security, Gardens, greenhouse, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Food Policy Council, berries, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, garden, halibut, Kerry MacLane, Let's Grow Sitka, market, produce, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, vegetables on January 16, 2012 |
• Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Thursday, May 12
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, fish in school lunches project, food security, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Gardens, greenhouse, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Sitka Seafood Festival, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, 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 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 April 27, 2011 |
The Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors will hold its monthly meeting from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, at the Sitka Local Foods Network’s new office in the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Building, 408 Marine St. Key topics for the meeting include the start of work parties at St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm, preparations [...]
• Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative to host public fruit tree planting party on April 23
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, education, food security, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged apples, Betty Eliason Child Care Center, Bob DeArmond, cherries, community garden, crabapples, Doug Osborne, education, encouragement, food, food security, fruit trees, garden, Hames Athletic and Wellness Center, KCAW-Raven Radio, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Pacific High School, projects, Sealing Cove, Sitka, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm on April 14, 2011 |
The Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative will host a public fruit tree planting event starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 23, at the Hames Athletic and Wellness Center. The first tree planted will be dedicated in memory of noted Sitka historian Bob DeArmond, who was 99 when he passed away on Nov. 26, 2010. The [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Thursday, April 7
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The Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors will hold its monthly meeting from 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7, at the Sitka Local Foods Network’s new office in the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Building, 408 Marine St. This is a change from the board’s regular meeting schedule. Key topics for the meeting include an [...]
• UAF Cooperative Extension Service’s Bob Gorman to teach series of free classes on gardening in Sitka
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, education, Gardens, tagged basic food gardening, berries, Bob Gorman, container gardening, education, encouragement, extending the growing season, food, free classes, frost-free dates, fruit trees, fruit trees and berry bushes, garden, garden pest prevention, garden plot, making soil, Master Gardener, projects, seed selection, Sitka, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, spruce needle aphid, transplants, tree fruits, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on March 1, 2011 |
Bob Gorman of the Sitka office of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will lead several free gardening classes starting this week and running through April. Gorman will lead two classes this week — Wednesday night (March 2) on fruit trees and berry bushes and Thursday night (March 3) on basic food gardening. [...]
• Mark your calendar for several upcoming meetings about local food projects
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, education, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Sitka Local Foods Network events, Sitka Seafood Festival, tagged Alicia Olson, ANB Hall, berry bushes, Doug Osborne, Ed Buyarski, Ed's Edible Landscaping of Juneau, education, encouragement, fruit trees, garden education, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Juneau, Kerry MacLane, Let's Grow Sitka, Linda Wilson, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Sitka, Sitka Culinary Tour Passport event, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival on February 17, 2011 |
As we near spring, it’s time to start marking your calendar with meetings, workshops and garden preparation events. Here is a list of some of the upcoming events, so you can add them to your calendar. All of these events are open to the public and new volunteers are more than welcome to join each [...]
• Save the date — ‘Let’s Grow Sitka’ gardening education event is Sunday, March 20, at ANB Hall
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, education, Food choices, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Gardens, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, tagged Adding edibles to your landscape, all those slugs, ANB Hall, Andrew Thoms, Arti Gras Sitka Music and Arts Festival, baby chicks, berry bushes, community garden, Ed Buyarski, Ed's Edible Landscaping of Juneau, education, encouragement, farmers market, food, food security, fruit trees, garden, home greenhouses, Let's Grow Sitka, Linda Wilson, market, prepare your soil, produce, raising chickens, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, True Value Hardware, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, White's Inc./Harry Race Pharmacy/White's Pharmacy on February 10, 2011 |
Mark your calendars, because the 2011 “Let’s Grow Sitka” gardening education event opens at noon and runs until 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 20, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Katlian Street. Celebrate the first day of spring and get ready to garden. This annual event brings together local garden supply stores, local gardeners, [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Monday, Feb. 14
Posted in Sitka Farmers Market, Gardens, greenhouse, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Let's Grow Sitka, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, 200 fruit trees project, fish in school lunches project, tagged Alaska Food Policy Council, annual meeting and potluck dinner, Blatchley Community Garden, community garden, community greenhouse, fish, 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 Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Unitarian Fellowship Building on February 4, 2011 |
The Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors will hold its monthly meeting from 5:30-7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 14, at the Sitka Local Foods Network’s new office in the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Building, 408 Marine St. Starting this month, meetings will move to the second Monday instead of the first. Key topics for [...]
• FISH, Tree work groups set meetings to continue Sitka Health Summit project work
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Health Summit, tagged apple trees, Blatchley Middle School, cherry trees, cod, community garden, crabapple trees, fish, FISH (Fish In School Hooray!), food, food security, garden, halibut, Hames Athletic and Wellness Center, Kerry MacLane, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Fruit Tree Initiative, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network on January 31, 2011 |
FISH (Fish In School, Hooray!) will hold an informal meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the front desk at the Hames Athletic and Wellness Center to make plans for its next school meal featuring locally caught wild fish. The other local-food-related project from the 2010 Sitka Health Summit, the Sitka Fruit Tree [...]

