AK Root Cellar : Bioneers Conference Focus on Healthy Local Foods

AK Root Cellar

This blog is for those of you who would like to add more local foods to your diet, meet local farmers, learn new recipes based on seasonal eating and preserving the summer harvest. Food is political too, so here you can learn about and influence local and national agriculture issues, and participate in helping to rebuild the Alaska food system. May each of you chew happily and wisely.

About me

Ellen Vande Visse

Ellen Vande Visse, MS, was an organic market gardener from 1986-2006. She instructs and consults about sustainable agriculture, compost, compost tea, and eco-gardening through her own Good Earth Garden School and for UAA. She is a published author about Alaska gardening. For more info, please see goodearthgardenschool.com.

Local farms and CSAs

NEWSLETTER

Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska

This July-Sept., 2008 Cooperative Extension newsletter includes a story by Matt Shaul of Cranberry Ridge Farm on how his Wasilla farm got started in goat cheese production.

EATING LOCAL

High grocery bills spur CSA interest

Read this June 9, 2008 Fairbanks News Miner story on three Fairbanks-area CSAs and growing demand for their local produce.

DNR's new farm, food, etc. directory

This Excel spreadsheet includes 16 categories from farms to farmers markets, herbs to aquaculture. Provided by the Div. of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources

Resources

Local Farms and CSAs

Find local produce, eggs, fowl and meat nearby.

WEB RESOURCES

Slow Food USA

Envisions a future food system based on principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice.

Local Harvest

Helpful website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food. Local producers also register on this site.

Sustainable Agriculture

Dedicated to educating the public on a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane.

American Farmlands Trust

The nation's leading advocate for farm and ranch land conservation.

Community Food Security Coalition

Dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food.

Weston Price Foundation

Dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism.

Bioneers Conference Focus on Healthy Local Foods

Posted by farmfresh

Posted: October 14, 2009 - 11:10 am

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Okay, Local Food Enthusiasts, this weekend is your golden opportunity.
Keynoter LaDonna Redmond comes from a part of Chicago where you can buy drugs and guns, but no organic tomatoes. No grocery stores with fresh veggies, no educated customers, no farm-to-city link. LaDonna tells how she organized innovative ways that have connected organic growers to urban centers.

She is just ONE inspirational speaker at a whole conference packed with experts talking about creating healthy local food systems. This is the 6th Annual Bioneers in Alaska conference, and it is not to be missed. I truly hope you’ll come.

For more information and registration, please see the Bioneers in Alaska website

the Bioneers in Alaska website

Highlights of Bioneers in Alaska Conference:
Creating Sustainable Communities
University of Alaska Anchorage
October 16th-18th.

Great daily plenary sessions from national and international leaders in sustainability beamed in from the national conference – free to all students. Includes Dr. Andrew Weil, Michael Pollan and Sarah James

15 different workshops from local Alaskan experts
ranging from energy efficiency and energy needs in Southcentral Alaska to arctic gardening, permaculture design and economics and social responsibility.
Two free and open to the public keynote addresses at Wendy Williamson Auditorium:

Friday, October 16th - 7:30
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Community Leader, Community Health Practitioner, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, former Mayor of Nuiqsut
Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Alaska Native Traditional and Cultural Ways.

Saturday, October 17th – 7:30
LaDonna Redmond, President and CEO of the non-profit Institute for Community Resource Development in Chicago
LaDonna has worked on policy initiatives and in communities with local groups to develop community gardens and school lunch programs supplied with local foods.

Opportunities for Developing Local Food Systems and Increasing Access to Healthy Foods

See you there with and local food and farmer appreciation event to boot!

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