August 26, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Capital City Weekly features Sitka Farmers Market, and other local food stories in the news

Screenshot of Capital City Weekly site with the Table of the Day Winners from the third Sitka Farmers Market

Click here to see a photo in this week’s issue of Capital City Weekly that shows Table of the Day Award-winners Hope Merritt and Judy Johnstone of Gimbal Botanicals and Sprucecot Gardens receiving their award from Ellen Frankenstein at the third Sitka Farmers Market of the season on Aug. 15. We host the fourth Sitka Farmers Market of the summer from 10 a.m. to 20 p.m. this Saturday (Aug. 29) at Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, 235 Katlian St.

In addition to the Sitka Farmers Market photo, there were several other local foods stories in statewide news the last few days.

Click here to read a Capital City Weekly story about the second annual Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Fair that takes place on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.

Click here to read a Capital City Weekly story about using and preserving healthy, delicious rose hips (by Dr. Sonja Koukel of the Juneau office of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, article includes a recipe).

Click here to read a story from Thursday’s Juneau Empire previewing this Saturday’s second annual Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival.

Click here to read a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner story about the history of sourdough bread in Alaska (article includes a couple of recipes).

Click here to read a roundup from the Anchorage Daily News about what’s available this week in local farmers markets.

Finally, click here to read an article from the Canadian magazine “Up Here” about a Yukon Territory resident’s attempt to eat a 100-mile diet (eg, a locavore diet).

August 24, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Sitka Farmers Market on the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette-Times sites

Screenshot from the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund site with the Sitka Farmers Market story

The Daily Sitka Sentinel article from mid-July previewing this year’s series of Sitka Farmers Market events continues to make the rounds of publications in the Lower 48. Click here to see the article posted on the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund site.

The article also made its way to the Gazette-Times of Corvallis, Ore. (click here to see the article).

Screenshot of the Sitka Farmers Market article in the Gazette-Times of Corvallis, Ore.

August 23, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Juneau Empire features Sitka Farmers Market Table of the Day Award winners

Screenshot from Sunday's Juneau Empire with the Table of the Day Award for Hope Merritt and Judy Johnstone at the third Sitka Farmers Market of the summer (Aug. 15).

Click here to see the photo in Sunday’s Juneau Empire of Sitka Farmers Market (Aug. 15) Table of the Day Award winners Hope Merritt and Judy Johnstone of Gimbal Botanicals and Sprucecot Gardens. Presenting the award is Ellen Frankenstein.

Join us for the fourth Sitka Farmers Market of the summer from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, 235 Katlian St.

August 21, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Sitka Farmers Market promoted in Ukiah, Calif.

Screenshot of the Ukiah Blog Live site with a photo of Kerry MacLane and Linda Wilson holding the Sitka Farmers Market sign

You can find some interesting things surfing the Internet. In July, the Ukiah Blog Live site from Ukiah, Calif., featured a photo of Sitka Farmers Market managers Kerry MacLane and Linda Wilson holding the Sitka Farmers Market sign out in front of ANB Hall. There wasn’t a story about the market, but the picture was on the site. Click here to see the post.

August 12, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Capital City Weekly covers Sitka Farmers Market

Capital City Weekly screenshot showing the Table of the Day Award winners from the second Sitka Farmers Market of the summer (Aug. 1)

This week’s edition of Capital City Weekly (a free Southeast Alaska regional weekly newspaper that comes out on Wednesdays) had some good coverage of the Sitka Farmers Market.

Click here to see a photo honoring Table of the Day Award winners Pete Karras and Mimi Goodwin from the second Sitka Farmers Market on Aug. 1. This photo ran in the Health section of the paper.

Click here to see a package of four photos taken by Capital City Weekly reporter Libby Sterling when she was in Sitka for the first Sitka Farmers Market on July 18. This package ran in the Outdoors section of the paper.

By the way, the third Sitka Farmers Market of the summer takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, 235 Katlian St. Some booth space is available, so call Linda Wilson at 747-3096 (nights and weekends) for more information.

The Sitka Local Foods Network (the 501(c)(3) non-profit group that sponsors the Sitka Farmers Market) welcomes any volunteers who want to help set up the market before it opens and take it down once the market is over. Also, the Sitka Local Foods Network accepts donations of extra locally grown produce and berries people may have to sell at the network’s booth at the Sitka Farmers Market. The money raised at the network’s booth helps fund Sitka Local Foods Network projects (the market, community gardens, seed money for the community greenhouse project, educational speakers, etc.). Just drop your extra produce off at the network’s booth, usually outside right next to the building on Katlian St., at the start of the market.

And finally, there was one last story of interest in this week’s Capital City Weekly. Click here to read an article and photo package about the variety of plants being grown at the Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau.

A screenshot from the Capital City Weekly photo package about Sitka's local foods from the first Sitka Farmers Market of the summer (July 18)

August 9, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Juneau Empire features Sitka Farmers Market

A screenshot of the Juneau Empire page showing the winners of the Table of the Day Award from the second Sitka Farmers Market on Aug. 1

Click here to see where the Juneau Empire on Sunday ran a photo of Sitka Local Foods Network volunteer Maybelle Filler giving Pete Karras of Pete’s Sourdough Bread and Mimi Goodwin of Just Arts the Table of the Day Award from the second Sitka Farmers Market of the season on Aug. 1 (Pete and Mimi shared a table).

In addition to the Sitka Farmers Market photo, there were other articles of note in Sunday’s Juneau Empire for those interested in learning more about local food.

Click here to read about the second annual Juneau Farmers Market and Local Foods Festival, which takes place on Aug. 29. Juneau only hosts one farmers market a year. Click here for the Juneau Farmers Market site.

Click here to read an article about the Juneau Community Garden. The Juneau Community Garden’s annual Harvest Fair is Saturday, Aug. 22. Click here to go to the Juneau Community Garden site. Click here for the Juneau Community Garden Association site.

Click here to read an article about the poisonous baneberry, a red berry that grows here in Sitka as well as in Juneau. There are photos, to help people identify this poisonous berry.

August 6, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Sitka Local Foods Network featured in Christian Science Monitor

A screenshot of the Christian Science Monitor site showing the Sitka Local Foods Network story

A July 17 Daily Sitka Sentinel article about the Sitka Local Foods Network that was picked up by the Associated Press newswire still has legs. It showed up in the Christian Science Monitor on Thursday (Click here to read the story). It’s nice to see we’re still getting some national exposure.

The Alaska Dispatch blog saw the story in the Christian Science Monitor and posted this response (Click here to read it).

July 27, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• More Lower 48 coverage of Sitka Farmers Market

A screenshot of the Red Bluff Daily News (Calif.) with the article about the first Sitka Farmers Market

Last week we made note that a Daily Sitka Sentinel story from July 17 that previewed the first Sitka Farmers Market had been picked up by the Associated Press newswire and found its way into the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia.

Well, this week that same story made another Lower 48 newspaper appearance when it hit the Red Bluff Daily News out of California (unfortunately this time there’s no photo of Florence Welsh with her giant broccoli). It’s always fun to see Lower 48 papers talking about local foods and Sitka.

Click here to see the story in the Red Bluff Daily News (Calif.)

July 24, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Sitka Farmers Market gets more media play

Screenshot of Anchorage Daily News' Alaska Newsreader blog mention of the Sitka Farmers Market

It looks there’s more media coverage of the Sitka Farmers Market. The Alaska Newsreader blog on the Anchorage Daily News Web site has a link to the Daily Sitka Sentinel story (as it ran in the Juneau Empire) and a link to the Sitka Local Foods Network Web site.

Click here to see the ADN’s Alaska Newsreader item about the Sitka Farmers Market

July 24, 2009 by Charles Bingham

• Georgia newspaper runs article on Sitka Farmers Market

A screenshot from the Augusta Chronicle Web site showing a story and photo about the Sitka Farmers Market

They’re talking about the Sitka Local Foods Network in Augusta, Ga.

The Augusta Chronicle’s Web site ran a version of a story that originally appeared July 17 in the Daily Sitka Sentinel and then was picked up by the Associated Press news wire. The article includes a photo of Sitka gardener Florence Welsh showing off some broccoli and cauliflower she was getting ready to sell at the first Sitka Farmers Market on July 18.

The Juneau Empire also picked up the same article to post on its Web site (the Augusta Chronicle and Juneau Empire both are owned by Morris Publications out of Augusta).

Anyway, click on the links below to check out the article on both newspaper sites.

Click here to read the article from the Augusta Chronicle’s Web site.

Click here to see the article from the Juneau Empire’s Web site.