Bridget Kauffman won the Table of the Day award at the fourth Sitka Farmers Market of the summer on Saturday, Aug. 28, at Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall. The local home baker was presented with a certificate, $25 cash and a farmers market cookbook by Sitka Local Foods Network board secretary/treasurer Linda Wilson and board member [...]
Archive for the ‘Food choices’ Category
• Bridget Kauffman wins Table of the Day Award for her baked goods during fourth Sitka Farmers Market of the summer
Posted in Food choices, Running of the Boots, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, food, market, farmers market, community garden, community greenhouse, fish, produce, berries, education, encouragement, Linda Wilson, Sitka Farmers Market, ANB Hall, garden, Sitka, salmon, cod, halibut, music, arts and crafts, food security, potatoes, carrots, bread, Running of the Boots, XtraTufs, Greater Sitka Chamber of Commerce, Alaska Cruise Association, Summer's End Celebration, Shutterfly, Bridget Kauffman, home baked goods, St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Lynnda Strong on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
• Sitka-based film, ‘Eating Alaska,’ goes international for screenings, national for PBS premieres
Posted in Food choices, education, food security, traditional foods, tagged food, market, community garden, traditional foods, subsistence, fish, produce, berries, education, encouragement, garden, Sitka, salmon, halibut, Eating Alaska, Ellen Frankenstein, Food choices, food security, potatoes, carrots, Poland, Croatia, Scotland, Canada, PBS, public broadcasting, Valerie Lipinski, New York, Far North Conservation Film Festival on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Eating Alaska,” a film by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein about local food and how Alaskans make their food choices, is going international with screenings in Poland, Croatia, Scotland and Canada in the next two months. The film also will be making its PBS premiere with broadcasts on various public television stations around the country during [...]
• A reminder about Saturday’s Sitka Farmers Market and other items
Posted in Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, food, market, farmers market, traditional foods, subsistence, fish, produce, berries, education, encouragement, Sitka Farmers Market, ANB Hall, garden, Sitka, salmon, cod, halibut, food security, potatoes, America's Favorite Farmers Market contest, carrots, Alaska Grown Eat Local Challenge on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget, we have a Sitka Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28, at ANB Hall (235 Katlian St.). We’re getting a little bit later in the summer, so hopefully we’ll have some root vegetables available this week, such as potatoes, carrots and turnips, that weren’t available earlier this summer. [...]
• Feedback provided during debriefing meeting for inaugural Sitka Seafood Festival
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, Sitka Seafood Festival, food security, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, food, traditional foods, subsistence, fish, education, encouragement, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Sitka, salmon, cod, halibut, food security, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Seafood Festival, Alicia Peavey, Harrigan Centennial Hall, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, Trampled By Turtles, Coast Guard Day on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a run-down of the Tuesday, Aug. 17, debriefing meeting for the Sitka Seafood Festival. The following notes were provided by Alicia Peavey, who chaired the steering committee that organized the festival. Thank you to those of you who were able to make the debriefing meeting for SSF. It went fairly well, and we [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival to hold debriefing meeting on Tuesday (Aug. 17)
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, Sitka Seafood Festival, education, food security, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, food, traditional foods, subsistence, fish, education, encouragement, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Sitka, salmon, cod, halibut, food security, Sitka Seafood Festival, Alicia Peavey, New Bayview Restaurant on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the inaugural Sitka Seafood Festival is over, the steering committee will host a debriefing meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday night, Aug. 17, at the wine bar at the New Bayview Restaurant. The debriefing session will be informal and shouldn’t last long. People who can’t make it, but have comments, can contact festival [...]
• Alaska Grown, Alaska Center For The Environment team up to host the Eat Local Challenge 2010 on Aug. 22-28
Posted in Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, Sitka Farmers Market, traditional foods, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, projects, food, market, farmers market, community garden, traditional foods, subsistence, fish, produce, berries, encouragement, Sitka Farmers Market, ANB Hall, garden, Sitka, salmon, cod, halibut, potatoes, Alaska Grown, Eat Local Challenge, Alaska Center for the Environment, local food, sustainable communities, tastes better, more nutrients on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The state’s Alaska Grown program will host its “Eat Local Challenge 2010″ on Sunday through Saturday, Aug. 22-28 (click here to read more). This year, the Alaska Center for the Environment, has joined Alaska Grown as a sponsor as part of the center’s local foods and sustainable communities program. Alaskans have many ways to eat [...]
• The Sitka Farmers Market needs your vote in the America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest
Posted in Food choices, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, carrots, cod, farmers market, fish, food, food security, garden, halibut, market, music, produce, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you enjoy the Sitka Farmers Market? Do you feel like it helps contribute to the community of Sitka? Then we need your vote in the 2010 America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest, which is a national contest sponsored by the American Farmland Trust. The contest is designed to raise national awareness about the importance of [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet Monday night (July 26)
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, Sitka Seafood Festival, traditional foods, tagged Anchorage, art and logo contest, beer tasting and smoked salmon contest, cod, Crescent Harbor shelter, education, encouragement, fish, food security, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Jeff Budd, Molly Andrews, music, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, Orso Ristorante, Robert Kinneen, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods, Trampled By Turtles, Westmark Sitka on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday night, July 26, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Pizza and drinks will be supplied. There will be a quick meeting at 6 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall for those people willing to volunteer to help serve or in the kitchen during the Friday, [...]
• Palmer-based CSA looks into distributing produce boxes to Southeast customers
Posted in Food choices, Local food in Alaska projects and research, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, food, produce, berries, Sitka, food security, potatoes, carrots, Palmer, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Anchorage, Glacier Valley Farm CSA, South Anchorage Farmers Market, Arthur and Michelle Keyes, A & M Farms, Mat-Su Valley, Kenai Peninsula, Full Circle Farm CSA on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Glacier Valley Farm CSA, which is based in the Palmer area, is considering expanding its distribution network to include some Southeast communities, including Sitka. Glacier Valley currently distributes its produce in the Anchorage, Mat-Su Valley and Kenai Peninsula areas. However, a customer service rep named Nelli said the CSA has been receiving a lot of [...]
