Life in Southeast Alaska

Juneau Farmer's Market

The first ever Juneau Farmer's Market is coming up on Saturday, August 30 from 9am to 2pm.  I have signed up for a table and will be selling jams and jellies, rhubarb bread, blueberry muffins and strawberry plants - all from local fruits.  I will be busy this weekend making the jams and jellies - hope I get it all done!  I will bake the bread and muffins on Friday.  I also volunteered to give a short talk about raising chickens for eggs.  I told them I was just a beginner myself, but would be willing to share what I've learned so far.  I will do that from 12:00 to 12:30.

There will be other speakers on topics such as growing garlic, flavoring with flowers, composting, free gardening resources, making cheese, greenhouse construction, and edible native plants.  The Dept of Fish and Game will have a tent setup and will present how to fillet salmon and tips on smoking and butchering a deer and how to take care of the meat.  Sounds to me like a wonderful day!!  I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to listen to all the presentations and still work my table  :o)

So if you live in Juneau, make sure to check it out!  It will be downtown at the old armory building, now the Juneau Arts & Culteral Center.  Oh, yeah, and come buy some homemade local jam!!

Sounds like fun!

7:52 AM, Thursday, August 21, 2008 .. Posted by Cousin Sarah

Much more informative than our local farmer's market- Hope you do well- both in selling and in information gathering! I'm sure your talk about chicken raising will go very well! You have been so thorough in the building and establishig phases. Way to go!

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11:49 AM, Thursday, August 21, 2008 .. Posted by jesusbmylight

I'm curious: don't you need a kitchen inspection in order to sell breads and food? I thought that was mandatory in all states now... If you did have to get one, what's all involved in that ordeal?

Hi jesusbmylight~
The event had checked out the laws and what is allowed. We are allowed to sell jams, jellies, syrups and honey without an inspection, but would need one for other home canned foods. We are allowed to sell baked goods, but nothing with dairy. So I did not need to make my stuff in an approved kitchen.
~Michelle

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3:40 PM, Thursday, August 21, 2008 .. Posted by jesusbmylight

Thanks for the info Michelle! We have a Farmers Market that just started in our area and I've been looking into all the regulations. Your info was helpful, though I'm thinking it's probably different here in Mi.