There have been a couple of new photo albums posted on the Sitka Local Foods Network page on Shutterfly (a photo-sharing site). There is an album of photos from Saturday’s first Sitka Farmers Market of the 2009 summer. There also is a photo album of photos from 2008 events, and an album of historical photos [...]
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• New photo galleries posted on Shutterfly
Posted in Photo galleries, Sitka Farmers Market, tagged ANB Hall, arts and crafts, cod, farmers market, fish, food, garden, market, Photo galleries, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Local Foods Network on July 21, 2009 |
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- • Lori Adams discusses everything she’s learned about planting carrots in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
- • St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm hosts another work party for spring planting and preparing for a summer of fresh veggies
- • Lori Adams discusses transplanting time in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
- • Lori Adams discusses crop rotation in her latest Daily Sitka Sentinel garden column
- • Join us at the Fish to Schools benefit dinner on Wednesday, April 25
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Alaska Links
- • "Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska" by Dolly Garza, PhD (order info from the Alaska SeaGrant program)
- • "Teaming With Microbes" site by Anchorage's Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame
- • "Wild, Edible and Medicinal Plants of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest Rainforest" pocket field guides order information (guides by Carol Biggs of Juneau)
- • Alaska Bounty (fish-based fertilizer from Naknek, in Bristol Bay)
- • Alaska Center for the Environment local food project
- • Alaska Community Agriculture (social marketing site for Alaska CSA and small-scale farmers)
- • Alaska Community Agriculture Association (new site)
- • Alaska Department of Fish & Game (includes regulations and other resources for Sitka hunters and fishers)
- • Alaska Farm Service Agency site (USDA program)
- • Alaska Farmers Market Association site
- • Alaska Food Challenge (group trying to eat only Alaska food during 2011-12)
- • Alaska Food Coalition (helps provide food to the needy)
- • Alaska Food Policy Council blog (updates from the Alaska Food Policy Council)
- • Alaska Food Safety and Sanitation Program
- • Alaska Food, a site from Susan Beeman Sommer that brings together other local food sites in Alaska
- • Alaska Granular Fish (organic fish fertilizer from Palmer)
- • Alaska Grown site (statewide cooperative to promote agriculture)
- • Alaska Master Gardeners Association
- • Alaska Native Plant Society
- • Alaska Permaculture Community social networking site
- • Alaska Permaculture Guild
- • Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association
- • Alaska Sea Grant program (University of Alaska Fairbanks, library has info on fish, seaweeds, seafood safety, etc.)
- • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (site has lots of information for the uses of seafood)
- • Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute recipe videos
- • Alaska subsistence halibut regulations from NOAA
- • Calypso Farm and Ecology Center (a Fairbanks-based community supported agriculture program)
- • Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market site (a new market in Fairbanks devoted to local foods)
- • Food Bank of Alaska
- • Fresh 49 (a site by chef Robert Kinneen about Alaska's local food and its food supply)
- • Gardening From The Cabbage Patch (collected columns from former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner garden columnist Pat Babcock)
- • Glacier Valley Farms CSA (a community supported agriculture program that serves Southcentral Alaska)
- • Good Earth Garden School / Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardener's Guide (site by Palmer organic gardener, teacher and writer Ellen Vande Visse)
- • HomeGrown Market of Fairbanks
- • John Evans and his Giant Vegetables (Palmer gardener with several world records)
- • Kenai Resilience (sustainability group from the Kenai Peninsula)
- • Meyer's Farm (Bethel, Alaska, community supported agriculture project)
- • Municipality of Anchorage community garden program
- • RurAL CAP (Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc.)
- • Seaweeds of Alaska (site sponsored by Cook Inlet Rural Citizens Advisory Council)
- • Southcentral Alaska Beekeepers Association (SABA)
- • Sustain Alaska site run by the Bioneers of Alaska (group does some food security projects)
- • Sustainable Local Alaskan Plants site (connecting locally grown native plants to the people that need them)
- • The Last Frontier Locavores site (aka, Alaska Locavores)
- • University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service site
- • University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences
- • USDA Rural Development page for Alaska
Blogroll
- • "AK Root Cellar" blog about local foods in Alaska from the Anchorage Daily News
- • "Alison's Lunch" blog by Alison Arians, president of the Alaska Farmers Market Association
- • "Anonymous Bloggers," site about bringing food and fuel to rural Alaska (includes several links on cold-weather gardening)
- • "DigginFood" blog about vegetable gardens and organic food by Willi Galloway
- • "Dispatches From The Funky Butte Ranch" blog by former Haines, Alaska, resident Doug Fine, who is living off the grid in New Mexico
- • "Eat Local Northwest" blog, a blog about local foods by Stephen Nowers in Anchorage and Audrey Young in Seattle
- • "Feasting in the Skagit Foodshed" blog about local foods in Skagit Valley, Wash.
- • "Food-G" blog by Ginny Mahar, a chef from Rainbow Foods in Juneau who writes about using local foods
- • "Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast" blog by Hank Shaw
- • "Mediterranean Cooking In Alaska" blog by Laurie Constantino of Anchorage (several recipes feature local ingredients)
- • "Mucking About A Northwest Garden" blog from Rainy Side Gardeners
- • "Rhubarb or Bust" blog about growing rhubarb in Alaska
- • "Talk Dirt To Me" blog by Anchorage Daily News photographer/gardener Fran Durner
- • "The Community Gardener" blog
- • "The Fireweed" blog by UAF professor Philip Loring on building sustainable communities
- • "The Locavore Way" blog by Amy Cotler
- • "The Real Food Revolution" blog
- • "The Starter Garden" blog from the New York Times (written by Michael Tortorello of Minnesota)
- • "We Can Grow It" Alaska Community and Neighborhood Garden Web site
- • Alaska Fishing Recipes
- • Alaska Food Policy Council blog (updates from the Alaska Food Policy Council)
- • Anchorage Daily News gardening columns by Jeff Lowenfels, a member of the Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame
- • Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market blog (project to open a local foods market in Fairbanks)
- • Fat of the Land blog, Adventures of a 21st Century Forager
- • Food In Jars blog about canning food in jars
- • Haines Gardeners and Farmers
- • Kenley's Alaskan Vegetables and Flowers blog (from the Mat-Su valleys)
- • Last Frontier Garden blog
- • Placemaking for Communities blog from the Project for Public Spaces (has local food and market posts)
- • Real Time Foods blog (stories about where our food comes from)
- • Sitka Gardening blog (unknown poster who uses the handle Natural History of Sitka Sound)
- • Sitka Nature blog by Matt Goff (an aspiring naturalist learns his place)
- • UAF School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences blog
- • Veggie Gardeners blog
Films About Local Food or Local Food Systems
- • "All Jacked Up," four teenagers look at the food system in America
- • "America's Heartland," PBS series about agriculture in America
- • "Asparagus: Stalking the American Life," a film from Michigan
- • "Dirt! The Movie," a film about the relationships between humans and living dirt
- • "Eating Alaska," a film by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein
- • "End of the Line," movie about over-fishing
- • "Food Beware," a film about the French organic revolution
- • "Food Fight," revolution never tasted this good
- • "Food, Inc.," you'll never look at food the same way again
- • "Fresh," new thinking about what we're eating
- • "Good Food," sustainable food and farming in the Pacific Northwest
- • "Growing Awareness," a Pacific Northwest film about Community Supported Agriculture
- • "Ingredients," a documentary film from Portland, Ore.
- • "King Corn," two recent college graduates grow an acre of corn
- • "Living Lightly," a family lives off the grid in New Brunswick, farming and making scythes
- • "Mad City Chickens," film about urban poultry
- • "Media That Matters: Good Food," a series of short films about local food
- • "Pollen Nation," a film about raising bees so they can pollinate local crops
- • "The Garden," from the ashes of the L.A. riots rose a 14-acre community garden
- • "The Organic Opportunity: Small Farms and Economic Development"
- • "The Real Dirt on Farmer John," an industrial farmer goes organic
- • "What Will We Eat?"
National and International Links
- • "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," site from the Barbara Kingsolver book (has good local foods links)
- • "Chefs A'Field" PBS cooking show that takes chefs to the farm and field to see where our food comes from, includes segments from Alaska
- • "Plant a Row for the Hungry" site from the Garden Writers Association
- • American Community Garden Association
- • American Farmland Trust
- • American Planning Association's Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
- • Cascade Harvest Coalition (local foods group in Washington)
- • Center for Food Safety's True Food Network promoting a healthy, sustainable food system
- • City Farmer's Urban Agriculture Notes (Vancouver, B.C., site)
- • Community Chickens (a site with info about raising chickens)
- • Community Food Security Coalition
- • Community Greens, an organization to get more shared parks in urban blocks
- • Eat Wild (organization promoting pasture-fed meat, eggs and dairy)
- • Ed Hume Seeds (selected for the Pacific Northwest)
- • Farmers Market Coalition
- • Farmers Markets Today magazine article on Alaska farmers markets
- • Feeding America (formerly known as America's Second Harvest)
- • Food Routes (Where Does Your Food Come From?)
- • Food Secure Vancouver (good site about a community's food security)
- • Food Voices site about worldwide food sovereignty by part-time Sitka resident Andrianna Natsoulas
- • Foraged and Found Edibles (Seattle business that sells wild mushrooms, greens, etc.)
- • Garden Guides, Your Guide to Everything Gardening
- • Gardening Know How site
- • How-to page for controling slugs and snails from the National Gardening Association's "Edible Gardening with Charlie Nardozzi" page
- • Hydroponic Vegetable Gardening Secrets
- • IATP (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) Food and Society Fellows
- • Kids Gardening (helping young minds grow)
- • Kitchen Gardeners, a global community cultivating change
- • Local food Web resources from the book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," by Barbara Kingsolver
- • Local Harvest (national organization promoting local foods)
- • Mad City Chickens (site from Wisconsin promoting urban poultry)
- • National Bioneers site (go to bottom of page for Food and Farming link)
- • National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
- • National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- • Natural Resources Conservation Service (offers some grants for local foods projects)
- • New City Farmer site on Urban Agriculture (Vancouver, B.C., site)
- • Organic Consumers Association
- • Organic Farming Research Foundation
- • Permaculture Forums (organic homesteading, natural living)
- • Permies.com (Goofballs who are nuts about permaculture)
- • PickYourOwn.org (national directory of u-pick gardens and farms)
- • Project for Public Spaces program for building public markets (lots of good resources)
- • Rainy Side Gardeners (a site about gardening in the Pacific Northwest)
- • Real Time Farms (national site that shows you where your food comes from)
- • RichSoil.com (site by Paul Wheaton of Montana on horticulture and permaculture)
- • Rodale Institute (supports organic farming, nutrition and similar causes)
- • Seattle Tilth: Learn. Grow. Eat. (good education site on urban livestock and gardening from Seattle)
- • Slow Food International
- • Slow Food USA
- • SPIN (Small-Plot INtensive) farming site about how to maximize production from small plots of land
- • Still Tasty (site about the shelf life of food)
- • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
- • Sustainable Connections site for sustainable living in Northwest Washington
- • Sustainable Table
- • The Edible Garden Project (community garden project out of Vancouver, B.C.)
- • The Fresh Loaf (site for amateur bakers and artisan bread enthusiasts)
- • The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
- • The Trust for Public Land (TPL) — conservation and parks for people
- • The Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts
- • U.S. Department of Agriculture
- • USDA Agricultural Marketing Service page for farmers markets and local food marketing (has national farmers market directory link)
- • USDA's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" program page
- • Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network
- • West Side Gardener (companion site for Rainy Day Gardeners, but focused on edibles)
- • Wild Food Plants
- • Wisconsin Fast Plants (rapid-growing edible plants that are great for gardening with kids)
- • Yukon Agricultural Association (farming info for the north country)
Sitka Commercial Food Producers
- • Absolute Fresh Seafoods
- • Alaska Dream Salmon (the Jordan family and the F/V Saturday)
- • Alaska Hook & Line Seafoods
- • Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association (Sitka-based commercial fishing industry non-profit group)
- • Alaskans Own Seafood
- • Back Bay Botanicals (herbal medicinal products)
- • Baranof Island Brewing Company (microbrew beer made in Sitka)
- • Big Blue Fisheries LLC (custom processing, custom smoking, retail sales)
- • Grandma Tillie's Bakery (locally produced baked goods)
- • Highliner Coffee Company (gourmet coffee company)
- • Larkspur Café (Sitka restaurant that uses local food on its menu)
- • Ludvig's Bistro (Sitka restaurant that uses local seafood and organic veggies)
- • Pearl of Alaska (Rocky Pass Pacific oysters from Kake)
- • Rose Fisheries
- • Sailor's Choice Coffee (locally roasted free trade coffee and nuts)
- • Seafood Producers Cooperative
- • Silver Bay Seafoods
- • Simple Pleasures of Alaska (kelp and wild berry products)
- • Sitka Sound Seafoods
- • The Alaskan Kitchen (hand-made sausages and catering using local foods)
- • Theobroma Chocolate Company
- • True Alaska Bottling / Alaska Bulk Water
- • Two Chicks And A Kabob Stick LLC (two sisters sell meals made with local seafood they caught themselves)
Sitka Links
- • City and Borough of Sitka
- • City of Sitka page about composting in Sitka (click link at bottom for next page)
- • Eating Alaska (film about food choices by Sitka filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein)
- • Garden Ventures (Facebook page for Sitka plant nursery)
- • Kayaaní Commission site for the Sitka Tribe of Alaska group about traditional plant use
- • Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (salmon hatcheries)
- • SEARHC (SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, one of our sponsor organizations)
- • Sitka Community Schools page for the Blatchley Community Garden
- • Sitka Conservation Society (one of our sponsor organizations)
- • Sitka Farmers Market photo group page on Flickr.com
- • Sitka Food Co-Op (new group trying to get a food co-op going in Sitka)
- • Sitka Gardening site run by Sharon Romine
- • Sitka Global Warming (one of our sponsor organizations)
- • Sitka Health Summit
- • Sitka Local Foods Network events calendar
- • Sitka Local Foods Network group page on Facebook
- • Sitka Local Foods Network photos on Shutterfly
- • Sitka Native Education Program (does some traditional foods classes)
- • Sitka Outdoor Recreation Coalition (Get Out, Sitka!)
- • Sitka resident Marcel LaPerriere's Southeast Cedar Homes business also is the local dealer for Solexx twin-wall greenhouses
- • Sitka Seafood Festival fan page on Facebook
- • Sitka Seafood Festival official site
- • Sitka Sound Science Center (hatchery, aquarium, learning center)
- • Sitka weekly sports fishing report from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game
- • Spenard Builders Supply (sells garden supplies in Sitka)
- • St. Peter's Fellowship Farm community garden photos (opens as PDF file)
- • SwampRatt (site by former retired Sitka Pioneer Home gardener Jerry Snelling, with photos from the gardens)
- • True Value hardware store
- • United Southeast Alaska Gillnetter's Association (Juneau-based regional commercial salmon fishing industry group)
- • University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service page for the Sitka District Office
Southeast Alaska Market / Garden Links
- • Glacier Gardens Rain Forest Adventures (a privately owned botanical garden in Juneau)
- • Gustavus Farmers Market
- • Haines Farmers Market
- • Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau
- • Jewell Gardens and Glassworks (a CSA garden in Skagway)
- • Juneau Community Garden Association (new site)
- • Juneau Community Gardens
- • Juneau Community Gardens video from 2009
- • Juneau Farmers Market (new site in 2010)
- • Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival
- • POW Farmers Market (a new Prince of Wales Island farmers market based in Thorne Bay)
- • Prince of Wales Island Farmers Market
- • Prince of Wales Island Farmers Market (Facebook page)
- • Southeast Alaska Master Gardeners site
- • Wrangell Community Garden
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