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 [...]
• Food advocate Andrianna Natsoulas to discuss the food sovereignty movement on Sunday, March 18
Posted in Food choices, food security, Local food in the news, tagged Andrianna Natsoulas, berries, carrots, cod, education, encouragement, farmers market, fish, food, food security, food sovereignty, food sovereignty movement, Food Voices, garden, halibut, importance of local food, produce, salmon, Sitka Local Foods Network, subsistence, traditional foods, vegetables on March 12, 2012 |
Food advocate Andrianna Natsoulas will give a free presentation about the food sovereignty movement at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 18, at the Kettleson Memorial Library in Sitka. Andrianna is a longtime advocate for food and environmental issues. She operates the Food Voices website, which features people from around the world (including Sitka) discussing the [...]
• 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 [...]
• Kettleson Library to screen Cooking Channel’s “Hook, Line and Dinner” show featuring Sitka
Posted in Local food in the news, Running of the Boots, Sitka Local Foods Network in the news, tagged Alaska Raptor Center, Ben Sargent, black cod (sablefish), black cod tips, Colette Nelson, Cooking Channel, GCI Cable TV, Hook Line and Dinner, Kerry MacLane, Linda Behnken, Ludvig's Bistro, Running of the Boots, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network on March 6, 2012 |
Sitka residents who missed the “Hook, Line and Dinner” show’s episode about Sitka are invited to watch the Cooking Channel show in a free public screening at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, at Kettleson Memorial Library. The show, which originally aired nationally Feb. 23 and 26 on the Cooking Channel, recounted a September trip [...]
• 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 [...]
• Alaska Food Policy Council releases its 2012-15 strategic plan
Posted in Alaska Food Policy Council, food security, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Local food in the news, tagged 2012-15 Alaska Food Policy Council Strategic Plan, Alaska Food Policy Council, Diane Peck, education, encouragement, farmers market, food, food security, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, projects, SEARHC, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network on February 12, 2012 |
The Alaska Food Policy Council recently released its 2012-15 Alaska Food Policy Strategic Plan, which was about a year in development. This spring, the council will work on action-planning on its top five priority strategies: Develop, strengthen and expand the school-based programs and policies that educate about and provide healthy, local foods to schools (e.g., [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
• 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 [...]
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