FREE COMMUNITY EVENT! Join us for a nutrition lesson as well as a cooking and hands on gardening demonstration. take home your own garden starts and learn about locally produced food. Light hors d’oeuvres included!
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT! Join us for a nutrition lesson as well as a cooking and hands on gardening demonstration. take home your own garden starts and learn about locally produced food. Light hors d’oeuvres included!
FREE COMMUNITY EVENT! Join us for a nutrition lesson as well as a cooking and hands on gardening demonstration. take home your own garden starts and learn about locally produced food. Light hors d’oeuvres included!
Beginning & Young Alaskan Farmers Network is rebooting its virtual socials!
Join us to chat about the 2023 growing season and debrief the Food and Farm Festival!
Starting in November AFMA will host a Food Access Forum once a month! We will meet 11AM – 12:00 PM via ZOOM. We encourage market managers, farmers, and others interested in food access to join in the conversation. Each moth we will discuss a Food Access topic. On November 21st we will discuss Food access programs that markets hosted during the 2023 Farmers Market season.
https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil.org/2023-festival-conference
Meet at the Stickleback Farm, located in Downtown Anchorage - 3rd and Ingra, to learn more about pruning fruit trees. Bring a pair of gloves and pruning shears if you have them!
Join us virtually March 17-19! More information at: https://www.akfoodpolicycouncil.org/2022-festival-conference
What: Stickleback Farm is a community-led initiative to activate a neglected parcel of urban land and create a new, positive community space. With funding through the DNR Division of Forestry and collaboration with the Municipality of Anchorage, UAA Division of Population Health and FRESH, AFPC is growing a demonstration orchard planted in fish totes. We would love your help in planting trees and look forward to sharing updates about the farm site.
What to bring if you can: Work gloves, shovel, watering can, box cutter, 5 gallon buckets, wheelbarrow, step stool
Where: 3rd Ave. and Ingra (parking available onsite or along 3rd Avenue)
On Tuesday June 29 at 10am, the Food Safety and Sanitation Program will hold a listening session, concluding its series of webinars dealing with cottage food exemptions. During this webinar, the Food Safety and Sanitation program would like to hear from food businesses, including processors who hold a permit, home-based operations, farmers market managers, and others interested in the cottage food exemptions in the Alaska Food Code. DEC will then consider these comments in determining whether and what types of amendments should be made to the current exemptions.
The program is holding this listening session in collaboration with the Alaska Food Policy Council, the Alaska Farmers Market Association, and the Alaska Farm Bureau.
Presented in partnership with our Regional Food System Partnership project organizations and participants and facilitated by FRESH: The Food Research, Enterprise, and Sustainability Hub (FRESH) of the North works to catalyze the modern food landscape of tomorrow by honoring the living traditions of yesterday and harnessing the innovative spirit of today’s Circumpolar North.
Presenter Joel Cladouhos will provide an overview of the SDG framework followed by an interactive discussion focused on these questions: How are the SDGs aligned with farmers’ markets in Alaska? What are the most relevant targets to be achieved and how are they measured? How can these goals, targets, and Indicators be improved? What are the opportunities and ways in which your business, non-profit or research project can leverage the SDGs?
The second in our 2021 series on Alaska food systems issues, the Alaska Food Policy Council invites you to attend this hour and a half presentation and working session on cold storage and food transportation in Alaska. We will kick off with a background presentation on cold storage state-of-affairs and challenges in the state, followed by an expert panel. The session will end with an active breakout session to gather feedback and thoughts from the greater Alaskan community on the issues presented. Feedback will then be aggregated and distributed to the group after the session has ended. Join us to learn and discuss this matter, which is so critical to communities across the state. We will open up with a general overview of cold storage conditions in Alaska, followed by a panelist discussion, then move on to sector-specific break-out room discussions.
Speakers:
Jodie Anderson, Director, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center
Aryn Young, Blood Sweat and Food Farm
Melissa Heuer, Spork Consulting and Su Salmon Co
Micah Hahn, Copper Valley River Salmon Collective, and University of Alaska Anchorage (Climate Action Plan)
Ronalda Angasan, Ag Alaska - Alaska Village Initiatives
Questions explored:
Self-introduction and how you offer, utilize, support, or need cold storage for food in Alaska.
Does Alaska need additional cold storage capacity? If yes, for who and why? If no, why do you think that?
Who should be investing in the cold chain? The state? Private industry?
What do you want state decision-makers, food businesses, and investors to know about cold storage? What else would you like to add to this conversation?
For more background information, take a look at our first webinar held in January - Food Transportation webinar!
Dial by phone: (253) 215-8782
Meeting ID: 813 6300 8700
Passcode: 984062
Alaska Food Code allows the sale of non-potentially hazardous foods sold directly to the consumer without a permit as long as certain conditions are met.
What are the next steps for businesses who are have outgrown cottage food and want to become a regularly permitted facility? Presenters from the Alaska DEC Food Safety and Sanitation Programs, Veracity Insurance, Evie’s Brinery, Bagel Shop, Lucy’s Market, and Alaska Salt Company, will go over the minimum requirements for small food businesses and resources to assist you. You can hear from small businesses who have made this jump to the next level of growth.
Co-sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council, Alaska Farm Bureau,
and Alaska Farmers Market Association
Meeting ID: 853 2762 5115
Passcode: 524428
Join by phone: (253) 215-8782
Alaska Food Code allows the sale of non-potentially hazardous foods sold directly to the consumer without a permit as long as certain conditions are met.
Presenters from the Alaska DEC and MUNI of Anchorage Food Safety and Sanitation programs will provide an overview of cottage food regulations and requirements and answer questions.
Co-sponsored by the Alaska Food Policy Council, Alaska Farm Bureau,
and Alaska Farmers Market Association
Meeting ID: 893 3138 2743
Passcode: 278411
Join by phone: (253) 215-8782
Join us for a screening of the 2008 film, Eating Alaska. A post-film panel discussion with filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein and Rep. Tarr, Rep. Rauscher, Rep. Carpenter, and Rep. Cronk will explore how much Alaska's food security has grown over the last decade and what the future could hold.
"Eating Alaska is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to a fisherman, deer hunter, and environmental activist, it is a journey into food politics, regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness, and to what we put into our mouths."
The first in our 2021 series on Alaska food systems issues, the Alaska Food Policy Council invites you to attend this hour and a half presentation and working session on food transportation in Alaska. We will kick off with a background presentation on food transport state-of-affairs and challenges in the state, followed by an expert panel. The session will end with an active breakout session to gather feedback and thoughts from the greater Alaskan community on the issues presented. Feedback will then be aggregated and distributed to the group after the session has ended. Join us to learn and discuss this matter, which is so critical to communities across the state.
We will open up with a general overview of food system transportation conditions in Alaska, followed by a panelist discussion, then move on to sector-specific break-out room discussions.
Confirmed speakers include:
Chelsea Ward-Walker, Anchorage Muni transport expert
Sandra Harbanuk - Alaska WIC
Walter Pickett - AC Stores
Kyla Byers - Arctic Harvest Deliveries
Emily Garrity (pre-recorded) - Twitter Creek Gardens
More guests TBA
“... the system operates an aging ferry fleet that is costly to maintain and operate, poorly matched to ferry route needs, with limited flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances”
- October 2020, Alaska Marine Highway Reshaping Work Group report to the Governor
“The most successful of these efforts have often been small in scale. All would be strengthened if Alaska created lasting infrastructure to support local foods. This is a necessity since food transportation routes have been an afterthought in state planning— at first these routes were dictated by the mining industry, and now by public investment in highways, railroads, and airports.”
- September 2018, Potential Infrastructure Investments for Alaska-Grown Food,
report commissioned by AFPC
“The Postal Service cannot afford to subsidize a service that has expanded beyond its original purpose and does not appear essential to the Postal Service’s mission to bind the nation together through the provision of reliable, affordable, universal mail service,”
- November 2011 Alaska Bypass: Beyond Its Original Purpose, a report by USPS
MarketLink, Alaska Farmers Market Association, Alaska Farm Bureau, and Alaska Food Policy Council are offering a FREE webinar on December 15, 2020, about the MarketLink Free EBT/SNAP Equipment Program for farmers markets and direct-marketing farmers. This webinar will cover everything you need to know about accepting SNAP/EBT including:
• What you will need to complete an FNS application and become a SNAP-authorized retailer
• Tips and tricks for completing this application
• Details of MarketLink's free SNAP/EBT equipment program
• And will conclude with plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Want to see if you qualify? Get a jumpstart on our eligibility application at marketlink.org/apply.
FREE REGISTRATION HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b4QqMm_rTTelfYgDDB0sMw
Alaska Food Policy Council
PO BOX 173, Homer, AK 99603
info@alaskafoodpolicycouncil.org
TEL (907) 756-3930
