by Bethany Goodrich | Nov 27, 2018 | Communities, Food Sustainability, Moby the Mobile Greenhouse, Youth Engagement
Application Closing Date: December 7th, 2018 Moby travels across Southeast Alaska kickstarting local growing efforts. Over the past three years, Moby spent growing seasons in Juneau, Kake, Hoonah, and Yakutat, and has catalyzed interest in growing food through...
by Jennifer Nu | Oct 20, 2018 | Blog Reports, Communities, Food Sustainability, Moby the Mobile Greenhouse, Reports & Media, Storytelling, Yakutat, Youth Engagement
THE ARRIVAL AND WELCOME My third journey around Southeast Alaska brought me to beautiful Yakutat, Alaska, a town of about 650 people. Carol Pate, the greenhouse coordinator and high school teacher, drove me from the ferry terminal to my new home outside the school,...
by Bethany Goodrich | Dec 8, 2017 | Communities, Emerald Edge, Hoonah, Hydaburg, Kake, Kasaan, Klawock, Sitka, Yakutat, Youth Engagement, Youth Engagement
Written by The Nature Conservancy, Sarah Dybdahl, and Tis Peterman Huna Heritage foundation in partnership with the Sustainable Southeast Partnership (SSP) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) convened in Juneau, Alaska in April 2017 for a two-day gathering titled Our...
by Bethany Goodrich | Sep 27, 2017 | Food Sustainability, Hoonah, Moby the Mobile Greenhouse, Youth Engagement, Youth Engagement
Written and published with Alaska’s Capital City Weekly The days are getting shorter and full of rain. Many Southeast Alaskans are dreading the impending seasonal shift. In Hoonah however, one 12-old boy is pretty excited. Standing over his garden, Ted Elliot...
by Bethany Goodrich | Sep 24, 2017 | Food Sustainability, Natural Resource Stewardship, Storytelling, Yakutat, Youth Engagement, Youth Engagement
Written and photographed by Bethany Goodrich for Salmon Life From sea to summit, Yakutat’s horizon boasts the tallest, most rapidly ascending mountain on Earth. It is here, below Mt. Saint Elias (Was’eitushaa), where the Yakutat Tlingit (Yaakwdáat) have carved their...
by Bethany Goodrich | Jul 10, 2017 | Food Sustainability, Kasaan, Natural Resource Stewardship, Sitka, Storytelling, Youth Engagement
Written and published with Edible Alaska Magazine On a sunny Sitka afternoon, a group of Pacific High School students and community members carve four inch deep lines into the soil. Gingerly, the students cradle seed potatoes in their palms. These small fingerlings,...
