Salmon are beginning to hit the nets of subsistence fishermen around Bristol Bay. Eddie Clark was fishing at coffee point near Egegik last week when he got his first salmon.
Food
Gardentalk — Mounting best defense against root maggot attack
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski says the larvae attack the roots of cabbage, radish, kale, rutabaga, cauliflower, broccoli and turnips. In warm weather, their leaves wilt because their damaged roots cannot pull up enough moisture. Root maggot larvae burrow into the roots and leave tell-tale holes and tracks.
Survival of first Alaskans linked to breast milk
The first people who came to Alaska likely trekked on foot across a land bridge during the last ice age. It’s always been a bit of a mystery how they survived the long, dark winters we still see today.
Gardentalk – Spacing sprouting spud seeds
Gardeners thinking about a crop of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower later this season should start them indoors now.
E. coli outbreak comes to Alaska, first confirmed cases are Nome inmates
Eight Nome correctional center inmates contracted a strain of E. coli from eating romaine lettuce. The confirmed cases are the first in Alaska related to a national outbreak.
Gardentalk – Attacking greenhouse mold and mildew
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski also has some hints for keeping our garlic going until harvest later this summer.
Gardentalk — Don’t settle for being medi-okra
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski provides some tips for care of okra plants and tool maintenance. A garden tool workshop starts 3 p.m. this Saturday at the Douglas Library.
Wrangell pizza shop owner gets $25,000 grant for aeroponic farming
Dixie Booker hopes to eventually build a 2,000-square-foot greenhouse with more than 100 aeroponic towers to grow year-round produce for the community.
A ‘floating fillet’: Rice farmers grow bugs to replenish California’s salmon
Insect-rich floodplain water once supported the threatened fish, but it has been diverted. The project’s end goal is to improve the likelihood that Chinook survive the trek to the ocean and back.
Mixing science with traditional knowledge, researchers hope to get seal oil on the menu
There’s a traditional foods movement happening in Alaska. Dieticians, administrators, and others are trying to get more wild foods like moose, berries, and beach greens into health care facilities and schools. But there’s one food that elders really, really want, and they aren’t allowed to have: seal oil.