One of the prime springtime activities around Sitka is for people to gather seaweed, either for subsistence/traditional food purposes or to use it to fertilize local gardens. Seaweed is loaded with lots of healthy vitamins and minerals so it’s eaten by many in Sitka, and it also makes great fertilizer for the garden. But this [...]
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• Easing concerns about possible radiation in gathered seaweed this year
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged education, effects of radiation on wild foods, encouragement, food, Fukushima Dai-ichi, garden, Japan tsunami, radiation, seaweed, seaweed gathering, seaweed testing, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, soil testing, subsistence, traditional foods on March 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
• Lori Adams gets the scoop on dirt in her Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged amending soil, building garden beds, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Lori Adams, raised garden beds, Sitka on March 17, 2012 | 1 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 building raised garden beds in her Daily Sitka Sentinel gardening column
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged building garden beds, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Lori Adams, raised garden beds, Sitka on March 12, 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 [...]
• Let’s Grow Sitka garden education event is Sunday, March 11, at ANB Hall
Posted in education, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Let's Grow Sitka, tagged Adam Chinalski, Amanda Grearson, ANB Hall, Andrianna Natsoulas, berries, Blatchley Community Garden, Bob Gorman, carrots, Cathy Lieser, community garden, community greenhouse, Dave Lendrum, Doug Osborne, education, encouragement, Eve Grutter, Florence Welsh, food, food security, garden, Hope Merritt, Jeren Schmidt, Johanna Willingham, Jud Kirkness, Judy Johnstone, Kelly Smitherman, Kerry MacLane, Landscape Alaska, Laura Schmidt, Let's Grow Sitka, Linda Wilson, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, Lisa Teas, Lori Adams, Lowell Frank, Mandy Summers, Margaret Tharp, Maybelle Filler, Michelle Putz, Mike Tackaberry, Penny Brown, potatoes, produce, projects, Rick Peterson, Robin Grewe, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, Southeast Alaska Master Gardener Association, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Stanley Schoening, Tom Hart, Tracy Gagnon, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, vegetables on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Mark your calendars, because the 2012 “Let’s Grow Sitka” gardening education event opens at noon and runs until 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 11, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Katlian Street. Don’t forget to set your clocks to spring forward so you can get ready to grow. This annual event brings together local [...]
• City and Borough of Sitka issues resolution in support of school meal bills
Posted in education, food security, tagged Cheryl Westover, House Finance Committee, hunger strikes, Kokayi Nosakhere, Nick Moe, Rep. William Stoltze, Resolution supporting school meals, Senate Bill 3, Sitka Assembly on March 6, 2012 |
During its Feb. 14 meeting, the City and Borough of Sitka Assembly passed a resolution in support of SB 3/HB 132, which are bills in the Alaska Legislature that provide funding for school meal programs. The resolution was signed by Mayor Cheryl Westover. The resolution recognizes that good nutrition is a major requirement of the [...]
• Lori Adams debuts new ‘Gardening in Sitka’ column in the Daily Sitka Sentinel
Posted in education, Gardens, Local food in the news, tagged choosing a site, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Down-To-Earth U-Pick Garden, education, encouragement, food, garden, garden column, Lori Adams, Sitka on March 5, 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. Her first column appeared on [...]
• 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 |
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: [...]
• 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 |
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 |
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 [...]
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