Here is this week’s Sitka Local Foods Newsletter courtesy of Linda Wilson. Don’t forget, you can sign up for the e-newsletter by typing your e-mail address in the box on the left side of the page.
Click here to read this week’s Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter.
Salmonberries await picking near the entrance to Sitka National Historical Park
This definitely has been a great years for berries in Southeast Alaska. There have been bumper crops of salmonberries and the blueberries are just starting to come in. Other types of berries also have done well, and I’ve got a friend who’s given away several Zip-Loc bags full of strawberries from her garden.
So now that you’ve picked all these berries, how do you use them? Earlier this week we had a post to a link about home canning, which had information about making jams and jellies and info about freezing the berries.
Sunday’s Juneau Empire has an article about how to use your berry booty to make two fun desserts. The article is written by Ginny Mahar, a chef who works for Rainbow Foods and also writes a blog full of recipes for locally grown food. Also, there’s a new book on Alaska’s Wild Berries from the UAF Cooperative Extension Service for sale at Old Harbor Books.
Click here to read the Juneau Empire article about using berries
Here is this week’s Sitka Local Foods Newsletter courtesy of Linda Wilson. Don’t forget, you can sign up for the e-newsletter by typing your e-mail address in the box on the left side of the page.
Click here to read this week’s Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter.
This week Linda Wilson sent out a special e-newsletter about the Sitka Farmers Market and issues related to our first market on July 18.
In addition to the issues listed in the special e-newsletter, please remember that no pets are allowed inside the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall during the markets because food preparation and sales are taking place in the building. Please leave our pets at home (or in your car).
Also, we gladly take any donations of extra produce grown in family gardens to be sold at the Sitka Local Foods Network booth. The proceeds from these sales help support our projects, such as rent for the markets, supplies for St. Peter’s Fellowship Farm and seed money for our proposed Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center.
By the way, our next Sitka Farmers Market is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1, at ANB Hall on Katlian Street.
Click here to read the special e-newsletter about the Sitka Farmers Market.
Here is this week’s Sitka Local Foods Newsletter courtesy of Linda Wilson.
Click here to read this week’s Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter.
Preparing produce for sale
Here is a link to this week’s Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter from Linda Wilson. There are notes about the first Sitka Farmers Market of the season on Saturday, and about an open house held Sunday afternoon at Florence Welsh’s Forget-Me-Not Gardens.
Here is a special Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter about the upcoming Sitka Farmers Markets, which start on July 18 and take place on alternate Saturdays through September at ANB Hall. For more information, click on the link and contact Linda Wilson (whose contact info is in the e-newsletter).
Every Friday, Linda Wilson sends out the Sitka Local Foods Network e-newsletter. Click the link below to see the issue for July 3, and feel free to sign up for your own copy.
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