The Sitka Local Foods Network will host Northwest garden guru, author, TV personality and seed company owner Ed Hume for two Memorial Day presentations on sustainable gardening. The two presentations take place on Monday, May 31, at Grace Harbor Church, 1904 Halibut Point Road (the gray building across from SeaMart). The first presentation is from [...]
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• Sitka Local Foods Network hosts Ed Hume for two sustainable gardening presentations on Memorial Day
Posted in Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Gardens, Sitka Local Foods Network events, education, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, produce, education, encouragement, garden, SEARHC, Sitka, diabetes prevention, Kerry MacLane, food security, Maybelle Filler, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Ed Hume, Garden Ventures, Old Harbor Books, Grace Harbor Church, Preparing the Northwest Garden, Vegetables and Ornamentals, Sustainable gardening, True Value Hardware, SEARHC Health Promotion, Diabetes and Lifestyle Balance programs, diabetes and prediabetes, "Gardening In America" TV show, "Gardening With Ed Hume: Northwest Gardening Made Easy", Ed Hume Seeds, Puyallup Wash., Ciscoe Morris, Southeast Alaska, Elfin Cove on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
• Sam Benowitz to give free presentation tonight (Monday, May 24) about growing fruit in Sitka
Posted in Gardens, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Sitka Local Foods Network events, Uncategorized, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, food, education, encouragement, garden, Sitka, raspberries, apple trees, cherry trees, Jud Kirkness, Sam Benowitz, RainTree Nursery, Alaska Pioneer Fruit Growers Association, berry bushes, tayberries on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sam Benowitz of RainTree Nursery in Morton, Wash., will be in Sitka to give a free presentation tonight about how to grow fruit in Southeast Alaska. The presentation takes place at 7 p.m. tonight (Monday, May 24) at Harrigan Centennial Hall. His Sitka presentation will be about about selecting, growing, and maintaining fruit trees, berry [...]
• St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm hosts first planting party of the season
Posted in Gardens, Let's Grow Sitka, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Uncategorized, tagged Blatchley Community Garden, community garden, Doug Osborne, encouragement, food, food security, garden, Let's Grow Sitka, Lisa Sadleir-Hart, produce, projects, SEARHC, Sitka, Sitka Local Foods Network, St. Peter's By The Sea Episcopal Church, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, WISEGUYS men's health group on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first of three scheduled planting parties this month took place on Saturday, May 15, at the St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm communal garden (located by the See House behind St. Peter’s By The Sea Episcopal Church on Lincoln Street). In addition to the slideshow above (which also includes some photos from a SEARHC WISEGUYS men’s [...]
• Alaskans Own seafood to start community supported fisheries (CSF) program in Sitka
Posted in Fish and game, Local food in Alaska projects and research, Uncategorized, tagged Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka, halibut, sablefish, black cod, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), king salmon, coho salmon, silver salmon, Alaskans Own Seafood, Community Supported Fisheries (CSF), subscription, wild locally caught fish, Sitka fishermen, Fisheries Conservation Network, Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust, Jeff Farvour, F/V Christi-Rob, rockfish, ling cod, Sitka Sound Science Center on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Alaskans Own seafood company is starting a community supported fisheries (CSF) program in Sitka this summer. The CSF program will be modeled after the community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription programs used by small farms around the country. Alaskans Own is a group of independent fishermen in Sitka whose commitment to conservation is supported by [...]
• SEARHC, Sitka Local Foods Network host Ed Hume for sustainable gardening presentations
Posted in Fundraisers for the Sitka Local Foods Network, Gardens, Sitka Local Foods Network events, education, tagged Sitka Local Foods Network, produce, education, encouragement, garden, SEARHC, Sitka, Kerry MacLane, Maybelle Filler, St. Peter's Fellowship Farm, Ed Hume, Garden Ventures, Old Harbor Books, Grace Harbor Church, Preparing the Northwest Garden, Vegetables and Ornamentals, Sustainable gardening, White's Pharmacy, True Value Hardware, SEARHC Health Promotion, Diabetes and Lifestyle Balance programs, diabetes and prediabetes, "Gardening In America" TV show, Garden Writers Association Hall of Fame, National Garden Communicator's Award, "Gardening With Ed Hume: Northwest Gardening Made Easy", Ed Hume Seeds, Puyallup Wash., Ciscoe Morris, Southeast Alaska, Elfin Cove on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) and Sitka Local Foods Network will host Northwest garden guru, author, TV personality and seed company owner Ed Hume for two presentations on sustainable gardening. The two presentations take place on Monday, May 31 (Memorial Day), at Grace Harbor Church, 1904 Halibut Point Road (the gray building across [...]
• Kerry MacLane provides update on Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center project
Posted in Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, food security, greenhouse, tagged community garden, community greenhouse, education, encouragement, food, food security, fruits and vegetables, garden, horticultural therapy, Kerry MacLane, locally grown, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, produce, SEARHC, Sitka, Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Farmers Market, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About a dozen people joined Sitka Local Foods Network president Kerry MacLane for a PowerPoint presentation about the proposed Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center on Wednesday, May 12, at the SEARHC At Kaník Hít Community Health Services Building first-floor conference room. Kerry showed his presentation (attached) and provided a status update for the project. [...]
• Jerry Dzugan wins bike in Sitka Seafood Festival raffle
Posted in Fish and game, Sitka Seafood Festival, Uncategorized, tagged Alicia Peavey, cod, Eric Haseltine, fish, food, food security, FV Cloud Nine, Grace Gjertsen, halibut, Jerry Dzugan, Linda Olson, Moe and Betsy Johnson, NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Action Heroes, raffle, salmon, Sitka Culinary Tour, Sitka Seafood Festival, Trampled By Turtles, Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jerry Dzugan was the big winner in the Sitka Seafood Festival raffle on Sunday, May 9, winning a $550 Specialized Hard Rock Disc Sport mountain bike donated by Eric Haseltine and Yellow Jersey Cycle Shop. Grace Gjertsen won $125 of king salmon from Moe and Betsy Johnson of the FV Cloud Nine. Winning gift certificates [...]
• SEARHC hosts May 12 lunchtime presentation about Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center project
Posted in Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center, Sitka Local Foods Network events, education, greenhouse, tagged community greenhouse, education, encouragement, food security, garden, horticultural therapy, Japonski Island, Kerry MacLane, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, produce, projects, SEARHC Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, Sitka, Sitka Community Garden and Education Center, Sitka Health Summit, Sitka Local Foods Network, University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka Campus on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have you heard about the proposed Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center? Join us for a short lunchtime presentation at noon on Wednesday, May 12, at the SEARHC At Kanik Hít Community Health Services Building first-floor conference room (1212 Seward Ave., down the hill from Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, the building with the big totem pole [...]
