(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
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• Lori Adams discusses everything she’s learned about planting carrots in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged amending soil, carrots, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Gardening in Southeast Alaska, Lori Adams, Nantes carrots, Sitka, weeding on May 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
• Lori Adams discusses transplanting time in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, greenhouse, Local food in the news, tagged Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, floating row cover, food, garden, garden column, Gardening in Southeast Alaska, hardening off, Lori Adams, Sitka, transplanting time, transplants on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
• Lori Adams discusses crop rotation in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged amending soil, crop rotation, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Gardening in Southeast Alaska, Lori Adams, plant family groups, Sitka on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
• Lori Adams discusses feeding plants in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged compost, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, feeding plants, fertilizer, food, garden, garden column, Gardening in Southeast Alaska, lime, Lori Adams, Nitrogen, ph levels, Phospherus, plant food, Potassium, seashell sand, Sitka on April 18, 2012 |
(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
• Recent paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) serve as reminder to not eat certain types of locally harvested shellfish
Posted in education, Fish and game, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Section of Epidemiology, butter clam, clams, cockle, crab guts, crab meat, geoducks, Juneau, Ketchikan, littleneck clam, Metlakatla, mussels, oysters, Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), pink neck clams, razor clam, scallops, shellfish, SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), subsistence, surf clams, traditional foods on April 16, 2012 |
This past week, there were four suspected cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) reported in Juneau. These four cases, combined with a couple of PSP cases in the Ketchikan/Metlakatla areas this winter and record-high levels of the PSP toxin found in shellfish last summer should serve as reminders that the state discourages eating recreationally and [...]
• As you build your garden this spring, don’t forget to Plant A Row For The Hungry
Posted in education, food security, Gardens, greenhouse, Uncategorized, tagged Anchorage Daily News, donated food, education, encouragement, food security, garden, Garden Writers Association Foundation, Garden Writers Association of America, Jeff Lowenfels, Johanna Willingham, Johanna Willingham-Guevin, Kerry MacLane, Linda Wilson, market, Plant A Row For Bean's Café, Plant a Row for the Hungry, produce, Salvation Army, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, Sitkans Against Family Violence (SAFV), SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, U.S. Department of Agriculture, WIC (Women Infants Children) supplemental food program on April 15, 2012 |
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article first appeared on this site in April 2010. It is repeated because much of the information remains current and newsworthy.) As you start to plan your garden for this spring and summer, don’t forget to Plant A Row For The Hungry. The Plant A Row For The Hungry program (also [...]
• Sitka’s ‘Fish to Schools’ project to be honored during Wednesday’s fish lunch at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School
Posted in education, Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, Local food in the news, tagged Blatchley Middle School, cod, education, First Lady Sandy Parnell, fish, fish lunch, Franci Havermeister, getting more locally caught fish served in Sitka schools, halibut, Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School, Pacific High School, rockfish, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka fishermen, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka School District, Tracy Gagnon, traditional foods on April 10, 2012 |
Sitka’s Fish to Schools project will be honored with the grand prize of the Alaska Farm to School Challenge during the fish lunch from 11:20 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School. Alaska First Lady Sandy Parnell and Alaska Division of Agriculture Director Franci Havermeister will be in [...]
• Lori Adams discusses slugs in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, ducks, ducks eat slugs, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Gardening in Southeast Alaska, Lori Adams, preventing slugs, Sitka, slug traps, slugs, slugs and other pests on April 6, 2012 |
(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
• Lori Adams provides advice in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged 3-Step Vegetable Gardening, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, Florence Welsh, food, Forget-Me-Not Gardens, garden, garden column, Gardening in Southeast Alaska, Juneau Garden Club, Lori Adams, Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, planting seeds, raised garden beds, Sitka, Sitka gardening advice, Steve Mercer, The Welsh Family Forget-Me-Not Gardens on April 1, 2012 |
(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
• Lori Adams plants some seeds in her Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged Daily Sitka Sentinel, damping off, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Lori Adams, planting seeds, raised garden beds, Sitka, transplants on March 23, 2012 |
(Lori Adams, who owns Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden and is a frequent vendor at the Sitka Farmers Market, will be writing a regular garden column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel this summer. The Sentinel is allowing us to reprint the columns on this site after they first appear in the newspaper. This column appeared on Page [...]
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