Come help Sitkans support the award-winning Fish to Schools program by attending a benefit dinner from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, at Sweetland Hall on the Sheldon Jackson Campus. This benefit dinner will include a presentation of the grand prize of the Alaska Farm to Schools Challenge for the 2011-12 school year, which will [...]
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• Join us at the Fish to Schools benefit dinner on Wednesday, April 25
Posted in Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, Sitka Health Summit, tagged Alaska Farm to Schools Challenge, Blatchley Middle School, cod, education, fish, fish lunch, Fish to Schools, getting more locally caught fish served in Sitka schools, halibut, Johanna Herron, Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School, Pacific High School, rockfish, salmon, Sheldon Jackson Campus, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka fishermen, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka School District, Sweetland Hall, Tracy Gagnon, traditional foods on April 19, 2012 |
• Alaskans Own™ community supported fisheries program announces season subscriptions for Sitka and Juneau
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, food security, Local food in the news, tagged Alaskans Own Seafood, black cod, cod, coho salmon, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Community Supported Fisheries (CSF), fish, food security, halibut, Juneau, king salmon, lingcod, market, sablefish, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, subscription, yellow-eye rockfish on April 19, 2012 |
Sitka-based Alaskans Own seafood recently announced its subscription prices for its 2012 Community Supported Fisheries (CSF) program in Sitka and Juneau. Alaskans Own was the first CSF program in the state, modeling its program after the successful Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs that let customers deal directly with harvesters so they can buy subscription shares [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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: [...]
• 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 [...]
• Sitka Conservation Society hosts wild foods potluck on Wednesday, Nov. 2
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, traditional foods, tagged Ashley Bolwerk, berries, cod, education, encouragement, fish, Fish to Schools, food, garden, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Mt. Edgecumbe High School Youth for Environmental Action, Recycle Sitka, salmon, Sitka 4H club, Sitka Bicycle Friendly Community Coalition, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka High School, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Maritime Heritage Society, Sitka Seafood Festival, Sitka Trail Works, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, subsistence, the Sitka Sound Science Center, the Slow Foods Southeast group, Tracy Gagnon, traditional foods, wild foods potluck on November 1, 2011 |
The Sitka Conservation Society will host its second annual wild foods potluck on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with food served at 6 p.m. Come celebrate Alaska’s bounty with friends and family. Bring a dish featuring food fished, foraged, hunted or cultivated in Southeast. If you don’t have any [...]
• Fish to Schools program to serve fish lunches at two schools twice a month
Posted in Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, traditional foods, tagged Blatchley Middle School, cod, education, fish, Fish to Schools, food, halibut, KCAW-Raven Radio, Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School, projects, salmon, Seafood Producers Cooperative, Sitka, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Sound Seafoods, Tracy Gagnon on September 12, 2011 |
The Fish to Schools program will kick off this year’s schedule of serving fish lunches at school on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Local fish lunches will be served every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary and Blatchley Middle School as a hot lunch option. This is a Sitka Health Summit [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet Aug. 23 to plan 2012 festival
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Olson, clams, cod, crab, education, encouragement, fish, food security, halibut, mussels, salmon, scallops, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods on August 17, 2011 |
The Sitka Seafood Festival will host a planning (or “see if we can make this festival happen again”) meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, in the fireplace pit at the Westmark Sitka Hotel (330 Seward St.). The third annual Sitka Seafood Festival is tentatively planned for Aug 3-4, 2012, but there is a [...]
• Sitka Conservation Society hosts a Sitka Salmon Tour for Kids
Posted in Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, food security, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged education, encouragement, fish, food, food security, Old Harbor Books, salmon, salmon habitat, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Salmon Tour for Kids, Sitka Salmon Tours, Sitka Sound Science Center, stream to plate, subsistence, traditional foods on August 17, 2011 |
The Sitka Conservation Society will host a family friendly walking tour of Sitka’s salmon habitat from 5:30-7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, starting at the Sitka Sound Science Center(834 Lincoln St.).The walking tour will explore the magic of salmon from stream to plate. It is similar to the walking tours offered this summer by Sitka [...]
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