{"id":2118,"date":"2025-08-05T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:45:23","slug":"harvest-season-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2025\/08\/05\/harvest-season-in-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Season in Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dipnetting season has come to an end, berries are coming in, and our garden plots are plentiful! We’re thinking a lot about harvest season in Alaska and want to share some resources with you.<\/p>\n

UAF Cooperative Extension publishes lots of information on gardening, harvesting and using wild foods, as well as preparing and preserving them. Browse through their publications on their website: https:\/\/www.uaf.edu\/ces\/<\/p>\n

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My Side of the River by Elias Kelly<\/p><\/div>\n

My Side of the River : An Alaska Native Story<\/a> (ebook) is written by Elias Kelly, a Yup’ik agricultural specialist. This book explores the way that colonial management of subsistence has impacted Alaska Native peoples and cultural practices.<\/p>\n

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Alaska Native Subsistence Rights by Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon<\/p><\/div>\n

Alaska Native Subsistence Rights: Taking an Anti-Racist Decolonizing Approach to Land Management and Ownership for Our Children and Generations to Come<\/a> by Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon presents a research project that was conducted in partnership with the Ninilchik Village Tribe (NVT) and sought to explore indigenous understandings of sustainability and land management through interviews with community members.<\/p>\n

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Alaska Berries<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alaska<\/span> berries<\/span>.<\/a> is a 1954 publication released by the UAF Cooperative Extension. It includes lots of recipes as well as information on canning and preserving.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Collecting and Using Alaska’s Wild Berries and Other Wild Products<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Collecting and using Alaska’s<\/span> wild berries<\/span> and other wild products<\/a> is a 1999 publication released by the UAF Cooperative Extension and includes information about a variety of berries, rose hips, and fireweed as well as how to use them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alaska Wildberry Guide & Cookbook<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alaska<\/span> wild berry guide and cookbook<\/a> compiled by the editors of Alaska Magazine, includes lots of photos for identifying wild berries as well as recipes for using them and tips for preserving. them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dipnetting season has come to an end, berries are coming in, and our garden plots are plentiful! We’re thinking a lot about harvest season in Alaska and want to share some resources with you. UAF Cooperative Extension publishes lots of information on gardening, harvesting and using wild foods, as well as preparing and preserving them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}