AK Root Cellar : EATING ALASKA COMES TO ANCHORAGE

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.

EATING ALASKA COMES TO ANCHORAGE

Posted by farmfresh

Posted: December 1, 2008 - 3:26 pm

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Eating Alaska is a 60 minute documentary about a vegetarian, who moves to Alaska , marries a fisher- man and hunter and begins to wonder what the “right” thing to eat is on “the last frontier.” What ensues are humorous and enlightening adventures in eating, taking viewers from Sitka to Kotzebue and including scenes with
the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Alex Davis of Alaska Truck Farms and the Alaska Vegetarian Society.

This wry look at what’s on your plate explores ideas about eating healthy sustainable food from one’s own backyard, either urban or wild, versus industrially produced food shipped thousands of miles away.

“Eating Alaska is wonderfully unpredictable. What a pleasure to have an hour long documentary about Alaska with no mention of Sarah Palin. Super Slow Food messages on sustainability, food traditions, and the value of local farm-to-the-plate." --Bob Berzok, Tucson Slow Food & Film Festival

“The film is great--engaging, clever, thoughtful, insightful, with the perfect balance between humor and seriousness.”--Richard K. Nelson, Author Island Within and Alaska State Writer (1999-2001)

Time and Place/Part of the Anchorage International Film Festival

Date:Saturday, December 6, 2008
Time:2:30pm
Location:ZJ Loussac Public Library
Street:3600 Denali St
(907)343-2975

Anchorage Film Festival

For more information on the film, go to Eating Alaska

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