Sign in or 
Share this
Resources
Need help identifying mushrooms, learning to properly can salmon, or applying for a fishing license? Or maybe you just want to read more about it? This is the place for listing classes, articles, and other useful links. Organized by resource type.
Interested in growing your own food? Check out the Master Gardening course offered by the Cooperative Extension Service. The Master Gardeners course is a twelve week class that, contrary to its title, assumes that you know absolutely nothing about gardening. The class starts from square one and the students are usually a mix of novice and experienced gardeners. Students have the option of paying a large fee and doing no volunteer time or paying a relatively small fee and putting in 40 garden-related volunteer hours. The Extension Service is very flexible about when and how you do your volunteer time.
Classes and workshops
UAF's Cooperative Extension Service offers a wide variety of classes in gardening in Alaska, food preservation, and building a small business. Courses are offered in several locations throughout the state and year round.Interested in growing your own food? Check out the Master Gardening course offered by the Cooperative Extension Service. The Master Gardeners course is a twelve week class that, contrary to its title, assumes that you know absolutely nothing about gardening. The class starts from square one and the students are usually a mix of novice and experienced gardeners. Students have the option of paying a large fee and doing no volunteer time or paying a relatively small fee and putting in 40 garden-related volunteer hours. The Extension Service is very flexible about when and how you do your volunteer time.
UAF's Department of Plant, Animal and Soil Sciences and Georgeson Botanical Garden has credit classes in soils, plant culture, plant propagation, greenhouse management and provides workshops on request on a variety of garden-related topics. Check out what's available at 474-6921.
Calypso Farm and Ecology Center offers evening and weekend workshops ecological gardening throughout the year.
Organizations and groups
The Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market is a group trying to develop a local coop market for organic and natural foods. Hopefully, this will include local products. Their blog is regularly updated.
Don't have space for a garden where you live? Contact the Fairbanks Community Garden. For a small fee ($30.00 a year plus a refundable $20.00 deposit) you can rent a plot. The Community Garden supplies the dirt, water, some basic tools, a big fence, and a port-a-potty. You supply the seeds and manual labor. Very nice site at the very end of A Street (back in the woods) in Hamilton Acres, a stone's throw from the river. The deposit is refundable if you participate in their annual clean-up day or do other work for the garden.
Of course, you're going to need compost for your garden and the nice folks at Golden Heart Utilities have got plenty for you. Check out their compost page here. It's safe to garden in and smells nice and clean. The price is right, too--$15.00 per standard pickup load or $5.00 per cubic yard for dump truck loads. Be forewarned, however--the black gold goes fast especially in the spring so be ready to move when the GHU announces its availability.
Fairbanks
UAF Summer Sessions includes classes in mushroom identification by Prof. Gary Laursen.Calypso Farm and Ecology Center offers evening and weekend workshops ecological gardening throughout the year.
Organizations and groups
The Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market is a group trying to develop a local coop market for organic and natural foods. Hopefully, this will include local products. Their blog is regularly updated.Don't have space for a garden where you live? Contact the Fairbanks Community Garden. For a small fee ($30.00 a year plus a refundable $20.00 deposit) you can rent a plot. The Community Garden supplies the dirt, water, some basic tools, a big fence, and a port-a-potty. You supply the seeds and manual labor. Very nice site at the very end of A Street (back in the woods) in Hamilton Acres, a stone's throw from the river. The deposit is refundable if you participate in their annual clean-up day or do other work for the garden.
Of course, you're going to need compost for your garden and the nice folks at Golden Heart Utilities have got plenty for you. Check out their compost page here. It's safe to garden in and smells nice and clean. The price is right, too--$15.00 per standard pickup load or $5.00 per cubic yard for dump truck loads. Be forewarned, however--the black gold goes fast especially in the spring so be ready to move when the GHU announces its availability.
The Georgeson Botanical Garden Society supports all activities at the UAF Georgeson Botanical Garden including volunteer, educational and fundraising activities. Check it out athttp://gbgsociety.org.
New article on Fairbanks locavores by Glenn BurnSilver in April 5, 2009 issues of Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Article is entitled "More Alaskans Trying to Keep Food Source Local: Locavore Living Growing Movement in Fairbanks" and quotes our own AnnieLou among others.
Read this article by Eric Troyer of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner for a compilation of local food sources in Fairbanks.
Anchorage Daily News' four part series by reporter S. J. Komarnitsky on trying to eat completely locally for one week.
Here's an article about a new program for Cheese Futures to help support the dairies affected by the Matanuska Maid closure. Local cheese, finally!
Outpost Agriculture is a monthly column about local agriculture and food ethics by anthropologist Phil Loring, appearing in The Ester Republic.
Linden Staciokas, a local writer and gardener, has two articles on-line that may be of interest: eating your garden weeds and clever ways with left-overs.
Eating Alaska, by Frankenstein Productions, 2009. Documentary. This movie is about and made by a vegetarian and former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherman and deer hunter. It is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our mouths.
The Ethicurean blog, while not Alaska specific, includes essays on food ethics and eating locally, and has great recipes, too.
UAF's School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences has numerous publications on local food production.
Publications
Articles and NewslettersNew article on Fairbanks locavores by Glenn BurnSilver in April 5, 2009 issues of Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Article is entitled "More Alaskans Trying to Keep Food Source Local: Locavore Living Growing Movement in Fairbanks" and quotes our own AnnieLou among others.
Read this article by Eric Troyer of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner for a compilation of local food sources in Fairbanks.
Anchorage Daily News' four part series by reporter S. J. Komarnitsky on trying to eat completely locally for one week.
Here's an article about a new program for Cheese Futures to help support the dairies affected by the Matanuska Maid closure. Local cheese, finally!
Outpost Agriculture is a monthly column about local agriculture and food ethics by anthropologist Phil Loring, appearing in The Ester Republic.
Linden Staciokas, a local writer and gardener, has two articles on-line that may be of interest: eating your garden weeds and clever ways with left-overs.
Books
Like a Tree to the Soil: a history of farming in the Tanana Valley, 1903 to 1940. Josephine Papp & Josie Phillips, published 2008. This book has biographies of farmers, gardeners, greenhouse operators, dairy farmers, and poultry ranchers, as well as discussions of what they grew, the organizations they formed, and generally giving a good overview of how the Tanana Valley was almost self-sufficient agriculturally for its early history. Movies
Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony, Justerhill Productions, 2008. Documentary. This film is a history of the Matanuska Colony's founding.Eating Alaska, by Frankenstein Productions, 2009. Documentary. This movie is about and made by a vegetarian and former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to fisherman and deer hunter. It is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put into our mouths.
Website resources
Alaska Grown is the official source for Alaska products certified by the State of Alaska. The site includes a directories of Farmer's Markets and Alaska Grown producers.
The Ethicurean blog, while not Alaska specific, includes essays on food ethics and eating locally, and has great recipes, too.
UAF's School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences has numerous publications on local food production.
Check out a variety of publications at the Georgeson Botanical Garden athttp://www.uaf.edu/snras/gbg/pubs/publications.html
Kim Sollien publishes a blog through the Anchorage Daily News website called AK Root Cellar. It's focused on eating locally efforts in Southcentral Alaska, but also includes information on national and international food issues.
Michael Pollan had a provocative and interesting essay in the NY Times entitled: "The Food Issue: Farmer in Chief", an open letter to the President-elect, noting how eating locally is closely tied to other national issues such as energy independence, health care, and climate change. I was particularly struck by how similar Alaska's agricultural situation is to the Third World countries he talks about.
Besides being a great seed company, Fedco http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds.htm has an interesting discussion of the state of the seed industry. Check out the link on the right side of the page labeled Monsanto buys Seminis.
Kim Sollien publishes a blog through the Anchorage Daily News website called AK Root Cellar. It's focused on eating locally efforts in Southcentral Alaska, but also includes information on national and international food issues.
Michael Pollan had a provocative and interesting essay in the NY Times entitled: "The Food Issue: Farmer in Chief", an open letter to the President-elect, noting how eating locally is closely tied to other national issues such as energy independence, health care, and climate change. I was particularly struck by how similar Alaska's agricultural situation is to the Third World countries he talks about.
Besides being a great seed company, Fedco http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds.htm has an interesting discussion of the state of the seed industry. Check out the link on the right side of the page labeled Monsanto buys Seminis.
estereditor |
Latest page update: made by estereditor
, May 7 2009, 4:51 PM EDT
(about this update
About This Update
movies on eating or growing locally
- estereditor
83 words added view changes - complete history) |
|
Keyword tags:
None
More Info: links to this page
|
| Started By | Thread Subject | Replies | Last Post | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEARHC_GUY | Some (mostly) Alaska garden links of interest | 2 | Dec 31 2008, 11:22 PM EST by SEARHC_GUY | ||
|
Thread started: Jun 4 2008, 5:57 PM EDT
Watch
http://www.alaskamastergardeners.org/
http://www.seakmastergardeners.org/ http://www.alaskagardeningguide.com/ http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/ces/publications/ http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/ces/ah/ http://www.uaf.edu/ces/michele/index.html http://www.greatplantpicks.org/ http://www.helpfulgardener.com/ http://www.foodsecurity.org/ (look at community project profiles, which have grants available) http://www.npsas.org/ (Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society, group headed by former Alaska Humanities Forum director Gary Holthaus) http://www.landscapealaska.com/ (Juneau-based garden design group) http://www.juneau.com/garden/index.html http://www.alaskaprimroses.org/ http://www.alaskabg.org/ http://www.glaciergardens.com/ http://www.projectforlivablecommunities.org/index.htm http://www.chickaloon.org/Environmental/GreenHouse1.html (garden project for Chickaloon Village near Palmer) http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF17/1779.html (article on food distances traveled) http://alaskalocavores.wetpaint.com/page/Resources?t=anon (a lot of Fairbanks community garden links) http://www.alaskagrown.org/
2
out of
2 found this valuable.
Do you?
Keyword tags:
Alaska
food
garden links
resources
|
||||
Showing 1 of 1 threads for this page
