Please join the Sitka Local Foods Network for its annual meeting and potluck dinner at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall (408 Marine St., parking lot is off Spruce Street). Join us as we honor our four years of existence and prepare for our fifth year. During this [...]
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• Sitka Local Foods Network hosts annual meeting and potluck dinner on Saturday, Jan. 21
Posted in 200 fruit trees project, composting, education, fish in school lunches project, Food choices, food security, Gardens, greenhouse, Let's Grow Sitka, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network board of directors, Sitka Local Foods Network events, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Food Policy Council, berries, community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, garden, halibut, Kerry MacLane, Let's Grow Sitka, market, produce, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, vegetables on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
• 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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 Conservation Society, UAF Cooperative Extension Service host organizational meeting for Sitka 4H club
Posted in education, Food choices, Food preservation, food security, tagged education, food security, projects, Sitka, Sitka 4H club, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Local Foods Network, Tracy Gagnon, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service on September 12, 2011 | Comments Off
The Sitka Conservation Society and Sitka office of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will host an organizational meeting for a new Sitka 4H club from 6-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at Room 215 at the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus. 4H is a national youth development organization that empowers young people [...]
• Celebrate National Farmers Market Week by going to the Sitka Farmers Market on Saturday
Posted in education, Food choices, Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged Alaska Farmers Market Association, America's Favorite Farmers Markets, ANB Hall, arts and crafts, berries, carrots, cod, community greenhouse, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, garden, halibut, kids' activities, lettuce, Linda Wilson, market, music, National Farmers Market Week, potatoes, produce, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, vegetables, WIC coupons on August 11, 2011 | Comments Off
Aug. 7-13 is National Farmers Market Week this year, as declared by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, so celebrate the week by attending the Sitka Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall (235 Katlian St.). Farmers markets are a great way to connect [...]
• 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 »
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 [...]
• Basic seed-saving class for beginners to be held on Aug. 3
Posted in education, Food choices, food security, Gardens, Sitka Local Foods Network events, tagged education, food, food security, garden, James David Sneed, Judy Johnstone, Linda Wilson, produce, saving seeds, vegetables on July 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Are you having good luck with this year’s garden and you want to learn how to save seeds for next year’s garden? A basic, beginners seed saving class will be offered free of charge (donations welcome) by James David Sneed at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at Judy Johnstone’s house, 308 Peterson St. Saving [...]
• 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 [...]
• New group working to start a Sitka Food Co-Op
Posted in Food choices, Local food in the news, Sitka Food Co-Op, tagged Ann Betty, Balanced Practice yoga/massage studio, berries, bread, carrots, cod, fish, food, food security, greens, halibut, lettuce, market, potatoes, produce, salmon, Sitka Food Co-Op, vegetables on July 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A new group will meet from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, at Balanced Practice yoga/massage studio (208-B Lake St.) to discuss the creation of a Sitka Food Co-Op. “We are just getting ready to have our first meeting to gather up those interested in being part of a start-up committee, so our goals and [...]
• ‘Getting Real About Food and the Future’ film explains the importance of local food
Posted in Food choices, food security, Local food in the news, tagged Christopher B. Bedford, community survival, education, encouragement, food, food security, garden, Getting Real About Food and the Future, local food, local food systems, local foods, produce, subsistence, traditional foods on June 28, 2011 | Comments Off
Why is it so important to promote local foods and local foods systems? This 30-minute video by Christopher B. Bedford explains some of the reasons why local food is so important. According to the brief synopsis, “The growing oil, water, and climate crises threaten food security in all communities. This new film by Chris Bedford [...]
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