“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 [...]
Archive for the ‘traditional foods’ Category
• 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 »
• 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 [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival adds cruise to Medvejie Hatchery for a tour and salmon bake to its list of events
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, food security, 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, Medvejie Hatchery, Molly Andrews, music, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, NSRAA (Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association), Orso Ristorante, Robert Kinneen, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Seafood Festival, subsistence, traditional foods, Trampled By Turtles, Westmark Sitka on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, Aug. 7, the Sitka Conservation Society is offering a Tongass summer boat cruise as part of the Sitka Seafood Festival. This boat trip will be traveling to Medvejie Hatchery for a tour of the hatchery and a salmon bake provided by the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (NSRAA). The trip will depart at [...]
• 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, [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on Monday (July 19)
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, education, food security, 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 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 19, at Harrigan Centennial Hall to solidify plans and other arrangements for the first-year event. The inaugural Sitka Seafood Festival takes place on Aug. 6-7 at the Crescent Harbor shelter, Harrigan Centennial Hall and other parts of Sitka. A tentative schedule [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival to hold picnic with Monday’s steering committee meeting
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, food security, traditional foods, tagged traditional foods, subsistence, fish, education, encouragement, Sitka, salmon, cod, halibut, music, food security, Orso Ristorante, Sitka Seafood Festival, Anchorage, Harrigan Centennial Hall, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, Trampled By Turtles, Robert Kinneen, Halibut Point Recreation Area on June 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee will feature a picnic in addition to the business part of the meeting. The picnic should help spice up the planning process and boost attendance. The next steering committee meeting takes place at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 28, at Halibut Point Recreation Area’s main [...]
• Wealth of resources available to learn about traditional foods
Posted in education, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Division of Public Health, Alaska Native Knowledge Network, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Alaska Natural History Program, ANTHC Cancer Program, berries, Carol R. Biggs, Dolly Garza, Eat Smart Alaska, education, encouragement, food, Kayaaní Commission, Pauline Duncan, produce, Renae Mathson, SEARHC Diabetes Program, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, subsistence, traditional foods, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, UAF Sea Grant Program on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Living in Southeast Alaska, Sitka residents are exposed to a wealth of traditional foods that grow in our forests or can be found along our beaches. But many Sitka residents aren’t familiar with which plants are safe to eat, and which plants they should avoid. They also aren’t familiar with when are the prime times [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on Thursday, May 6
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, education, traditional foods, tagged 501(c)(3), Alicia Peavey, Bayview Restaurant, cod, education, encouragement, F/V Cloud (Betsy and Moe Johnson), fish, food security, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, Linda Olson, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, projects, raffle, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Fire Station, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafoof Festival, Taste of Sitka, traditional foods, Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at Harrigan Centennial Hall (Editor’s note: The meeting has been changed to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at the Sitka Fire Station). Six smaller committees are supposed to hold meetings before the steering committee meets [...]
• Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee to meet on Saturday, April 17
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, education, traditional foods, tagged Alicia Peavey, clams, cod, crab, education, encouragement, fish, food, Haines, halibut, Harrigan Centennial Hall, kids' activities, Lily Herwald, Linda Olson, music, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, oysters, Phyllis Hackett, projects, salmon, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, Sitka Seafood Festival, Southeast Alaska State Fair, subsistence, traditional foods on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The next meeting of the Sitka Seafood Festival steering committee is 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 17, at Harrigan Centennial Hall. During the April 10 meeting, the committee voted Lily Herwald in as secretary and Phyllis Hackett as bookkeeper. The committee also decided to book “NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes,” a four-man juggling, acrobatic, martial [...]
• Sitka subsistence herring egg harvest in progress
Posted in Fish and game, Food choices, traditional foods, tagged Alaska Native Knowledge Network, Betty Baines, caribou, commercial harvest, Ed Ronco, education, encouragement, food, food security, Haida, Heen Kweix' (Bob Gamble), hemlock branches, herring, herring eggs, herring quota, Kasiana Island, KCAW-Raven Radio, Kiksadi News, Michael Baines, Pauline Duncan, sac roe herring, Sitka, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, subsistence, subsistence harvest, Tlingít, traditional foods, Tsimshian on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If it’s snowing in April, it probably means it’s time for the subsistence herring egg harvest in Sitka. This is one of the most important signs of spring in Sitka, especially for the Tlingít, Haida and Tsimshian people who lived in Southeast Alaska long before the first Europeans showed up. On the KCAW-Raven Radio news [...]