Recently, KCAW-Raven Radio summer intern Emily Bender produced a story about a new walking tour that teaches tourists and locals about something near and dear to Sitka’s heart — wild salmon. According to the story, Nicolaas Mink, owner and tour guide for Sitka Salmon Tours, leads behind-the-scenes walking tours of the local salmon fishery from [...]
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• KCAW-Raven Radio highlights new walking tour about salmon in Sitka
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, traditional foods, tagged ANB Harbor, education, Emily Bender, fish, food, food security, KCAW-Raven Radio, Nicolaas Mink, salmon, Seafood Producers Cooperative, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Salmon Tours, traditional foods on August 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
• Make plans for the second Sitka Farmers Market of the summer this Saturday (July 30) at ANB Hall
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, broccoli, carrots, chard, cod, education, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, greens, halibut, herbs, kale, kids' activities, lettuce, Linda Wilson, market, potatoes, produce, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, vegetables on July 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The second Sitka Farmers Market of the summer takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall (235 Katlian St.), and this market promises to be bigger than the first one. This will be the second of five full Sitka Farmers Markets this summer, with the [...]
• ADF&G offers basic hunter education course July 22-23 in Sitka
Posted in education, Fish and game, tagged Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Basic Hunter Education, bear, deer, education, encouragement, food, game meat, goat, hunter safety, hunting, moose, safe rifle use, sheep, Sitka ADF&G office, Sitka Local Foods Network, subsistence, traditional foods, workshop on July 6, 2011 |
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is offering a two-day basic hunter education class July 22-23 in Sitka. The class takes place from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, July 22, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, at the Sitka Sportsman’s Association building toward the end of Halibut Point Road (by [...]
• Second Annual Sitka Seafood Festival celebrates our local bounty from the sea
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Seafood Festival, Uncategorized, tagged Crescent Harbor, fish, food, GingerLee, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Jenn Perry, Louisa Chu, Old Harbor Books, Ray Troll, Ray Troll and the Rat Fish Wranglers, Robert Kinneen, rockfish, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods on May 16, 2011 |
The second annual Sitka Seafood Festival takes place on Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, at Harrigan Centennial Hall and Crescent Harbor. The festival opens at 6 p.m. on Friday with the opening banquet dinner at Harrigan Centennial Hall. This event features a formal atmosphere with various local chefs collaborating, each showcasing a separate course. It [...]
• 2011 prices set for Alaskans Own community supported fisheries (CSF) seafood subscriptions
Posted in Fish and game, food security, Local food in the news, tagged Alaskans Own, Beth Short, black cod (sablefish), coho salmon (silver salmon), Community Supported Fisheries (CSF), CSF, Fishery Conservation Network, halibut, king salmon, lingcod, seafood subscriptions, Sitka, yelloweye on April 27, 2011 |
It’s time to sign up for your 2011 community supported fisheries (CSF) seafood subscription with Alaskans Own seafood company in Sitka. This is the second summer Alaskans Own has offered CSF seafood subscriptions, and they were very successful last year. Subscriptions are available in full shares (40 pounds total for the season) and half shares [...]
• 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 [...]
• Alaskans Own™ community supported fisheries program expands from Sitka to Juneau
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, food security, Local food in the news, tagged Alaska Marine Conservation Council, Alaskans Own Seafood, black cod, cod, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Community Supported Fisheries (CSF), fish, food security, halibut, Juneau, Kodiak tanner crab, market, sablefish, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, subscription, yellow-eye rockfish on January 24, 2011 |
The Juneau Empire on Sunday, Jan. 23, featured an article that Sitka-based Alaskans Own™ seafood cooperative is expanding its Community Supported Fisheries program into Juneau this summer. Last summer, Alaskans Own™ became the first community supported fisheries (CSF) program in Alaska, using a model popular with farmers called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) where customers buy [...]
• Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute sponsors Alaska fish taco recipe contest
Posted in Fish and game, traditional foods, Recipes, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, traditional foods, fish, salmon, cod, halibut, fish tacos, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, Mary Sue Milliken, Susan Feninger, Border Grill, wild Alaska seafood, Border Grill Truck, taqueria, wild Alaska fish in a tortilla, burrito, quesadilla on December 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Do you have a great fish taco recipe that uses wild Alaska seafood, Sitka’s premier local food? If so, that recipe might earn you a trip to Los Angeles to serve your winning dish. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is sponsoring the contest, in partnership with celebrity chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feninger of [...]
• Sitka Health Summit project to get more fish in school lunches to start pilot study
Posted in Fish and game, fish in school lunches project, Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, tagged Blatchley Middle School, cod, commercial fishing groups, education, encouragement, fish, fish taco, fish tacos, food, halibut, locally caught wild fish in Sitka schools, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, NANA Management Services, Pacific cod, Pacific High School, projects, salmon, school lunches, Sitka, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Pioneer Home, Sitka School District, Southeast Alaska Career Center, Steve Bradshaw on November 22, 2010 |
Members of the Sitka Health Summit group trying to get more locally caught wild fish served in school lunches met with Sitka school officials Friday, Nov. 19, over a meal of fish tacos and agreed to a pilot study to see how many students will choose fish for lunch. The project is one of four [...]
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