Herring is an important food source in Sitka and the rest of Southeast Alaska. Not only are there huge commercial and subsistence harvests of the fish, and it is an important food source for salmon, halibut, whales, sea lions and other animals in the region. The Sitka Maritime Heritage Society will host the presentation “Herring: [...]
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• Sitka Maritime Heritage Society to host a presentation on the importance of herring in Southeast Alaska
Posted in education, Fish and game, Local food in Alaska projects and research, traditional foods, tagged education, encouragement, fish, food, Harrigan Centennial Hall, herring, herring eggs, herring reduction plants, sac roe herring, Sitka, Sitka Maritime Heritage Society, subsistence, traditional foods on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
• Booths and vendors needed for the Let’s Grow Sitka! garden education event in March
Posted in education, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, food, food security, garden, kids' activities, Let's Grow Sitka, Linda Wilson, potatoes, produce, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, vegetables on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It is time to start planning for the 2012 Let’s Grow Sitka Garden Expo. This year’s event will be from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 11, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall. Linda Wilson is coordinating the event, and she is looking for anyone interested in participating. Table spaces are FREE. The only [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Monday, Feb. 6
Posted in composting, education, Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, food security, Gardens, greenhouse, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Food Co-Op, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, 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, Kerry MacLane, 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 February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors will hold its monthly meeting from 6:30-8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, at the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Building, 408 Marine St. (parking lot is off Spruce Street). Key topics for the meeting include planning for the Let’s Grow Sitka on March 11, a recap of the [...]
• Pacific High School and Sitka Conservation Society partner up to serve local fish in school lunches
Posted in education, fish in school lunches project, Local food in the news, tagged Beth Short-Rhoads, Blatchley Middle School, cod, commercial fishermen, education, encouragement, fish, Fish to Schools, food, halibut, Johanna Willingham, Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School, Pacific High School, rockfish, salmon, Sarah Ferrency, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka School District, Tracy Gagnon, We Love Our Fisherman on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Pacific High School now serves local seafood in the cafeteria and joins the growing ranks of schools connecting to local foods. Starting Wednesday, Feb. 1, Pacific High students will have a choice of local seafood dishes twice a month due to a partnership with the Sitka Conservation Society. Sitka, Alaska, is the ninth largest fishing [...]
• 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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
• Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors to meet on Monday, Jan. 9
Posted in composting, education, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Let's Grow Sitka, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Food Co-Op, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, 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, Kerry MacLane, 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 January 5, 2012 | Comments Off
The Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors will hold its monthly meeting from 6:30-8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, at the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Building, 408 Marine St. (parking lot is off Spruce Street). Key topics for the meeting include planning for the Jan. 21 Sitka Local Foods Network annual meeting, a recap [...]
• Alaska chef Robert Kinneen creates webinar series about cooking with traditional foods
Posted in education, Local food in Alaska projects and research, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), Aleut, berries, cod, Desirée Simeon, Dr. Gary Ferguson, education, encouragement, fish, Fresh 49 project, Haida, halibut, Petersburg, projects, Renae Mathson, Robert Kinneen, rockfish, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), Store Outside Your Door, subsistence, Tlingít, traditional foods, venison on January 5, 2012 | Comments Off
Local food from Sitka is featured prominently in the new Fresh49.com webisode series about using traditional foods created by Alaska chef Robert Kinneen of Anchorage and Dr. Gary Ferguson, ND, the director of the Wellness and Prevention program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC). The first webisodes in the series are about the [...]
• 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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
(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 | Comments Off
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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