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We Moved! the BIG News Homer Soil & Water Conservation District Newsletter Spring 2018 “To provide education and leadership in the conservation and sustainable use of soil- and water-related resources The BIG News through cooperative programs that protect, restore and improve our environment.” Homer Soil & Water’s In this issue: New Home! NRCS Final Year of Soil Study Summer Outreach Events Alaska Food Hub Online Fare Thee Well to a Friend Coffee Burritos Baby Salmon Live Here Local Working Group Coming Together for A.R. Welcome Nicole Arevalo! Curry Salads Welcome Jim Engebretsen! NRCS Committee Meeting EQIP Taking Applications We Moved! HSWCD Anchor River Outreach It is somewhat sad to say that Homer Soil and Water has left its home of over 30 years--the blue tile building on the corner of Pioneer and Lake. We're now down Pio- Board of Supervisors neer, still co-located with NRCS, in the Frontier Building (the former location for Tech Connect) at 432 E. Pioneer. Our space is nice and cozy and ready for visitors. Chris Rainwater, Chair Feel free to stop by the office and say hello; we’ve got some great Alaska Grown Otto Kilcher, Vice Chair stickers and pins waiting for you and your family. Genarita Grobarek, Treasurer Tim Alzheimer, Secretary COME IN AND SAY HELLO TO THE NEW PLACE! Jim Engebretsen (*new!*) District Staff Has a thing for invasive weeds Kyra Wagner, A ND SAY District Manager Knows all that needs to be known about various Devony Lehner Natural GOODBYE TO mysterious permitting processes. Resource Specialist AN OLD Loves to build trails with kids, educate kids about Brad Casar, Natural Invasive weeds or anything else they will listen to. Resource Technician FRIEND WHO : Always wears a Scottish wool hat. Charlotte Crowder, Biological Technician Loves to play music. And loves practical jokes. See page 3 for more clues Nicole Arevalo (*new!*) Will be missed…. Natural Currents Newsletter Page 2 The Alaska IT’S ALL ABOUT SOIL HEALTH Food Hub: Open Soil Health Study’s Outreach Events for Business, Online! Last Year to Plan For Homer Soil and Water Conservation District is nearing completion of year two Online shopping is open for Homer! of a soil health study done in cooperation Visit the Alaska Food Hub website to see with NRCS and four agricultural produc- what it’s all about, and scroll through the ers. Over the past 2 years, vegetable lists of fresh locally grown, harvested, plots have been maintained outdoors and produced food and crafts. and in high tunnels to The Alaska Food Hub, previously track how cov- known as the Kenai Peninsula Food Hub, er crops, re- is an aggregator and online marketplace duced tillage, This summer, in conjunction with of locally grown, harvested, and pro- nutrient man- the NRCS soil health study and SVT duced foods and crafts. The Food Hub agement, and Health and Wellness Clinic, multiple will be functioning in a very similar man- conservation outreach events will take place ner for Homer this year, except now crop rotation throughout the growing season. Homer producers are able to sell to a affect soil health. Outreach activities began on May broader market of Seldovia, Ninilchik, Each producer had a different level 3rd with a discussion at SVT on develop- and Soldotna. In addition, Anchorage is of experience with both cover cropping ing healthy soils. Healthy soils produce operating on the same system to create and reduced tillage before the study healthy, productive crops. As farmers an online marketplace for Anchorage started. Implementing these practices and gardeners, it is our goal to build producers and customers. For the previ- into each grower’s operation came with deep, fertile, resilient soils to create a ous two years, Cook Inletkeeper has different challenges and strategies to healthy environment for beneficial soil effectively use these practices in their hosted a grant making the food hub op- microbes that will support the crops we erations possible during the initial trial management. Specifically, cover crop- grow. At SVT, we talked about manag- period. 2018 is the first year of operation ping in raised beds is not a common ing the biological, physical, and chemi- without the grant, and the Inlet Keeper practice, so it has required some innova- cal properties of your soils so that they tive approaches that each farmer tackled can be healthy and productive for years decided to continue hosting the food hub in a different way. to come. and its operations. This summer we will conduct the In late spring, SVT's weekly Thriv- This year an exemption has taken final season of plot trials. A new vegeta- ing Thursday will offer a visit to Carey effect to allow cottage food industry ble crop will be grown in the rotation, Restino’s Homer Hilltop Farm, where we items to be sold on the online market- followed by cover crops in late summer. will demonstrate a variety of farm tools. place. We encourage everyone to check At the end of the season the final soil These will include tools and equipment tests will be performed and field notes out the website and think about how for seeding, weeding, tilling, harvesting, they can contribute to this fantastic from the previous 3 years will be summa- and processing. Participants will be food system enrichment tool. Ordering rized. We look forward to having the available to see tools in action and get from the Alaska Food Hub helps to build data analyzed to see how the trials per- advice on what they are best suited for. formed and what results can be derived Dates for this event will be publicized and support our community, preserve from the soil health study in Homer. through SVT's Thriving Thursdays flyers, agricultural land, lower carbon footprints or check our website for updates. by decreasing food miles, and At the end of the growing season we will visit at least one of the soil health study strengthen local farms so that participants can view test plots in all their glory. We plan to visit these sites when cover crops are in production so we can see and talk about differences we economies. have noted over the years as a result of each treatment. We encourage folks to come Happy out and ask questions about how they can make cover crops work in their own par- Shopping! ticular situations. Natural Currents Newsletter Page 3 A fond “Fare Thee Well” Baby Salmon Live Here to Matt Steffy Kachemak Heritage Land Trust's (KHLT) Baby Salmon Live Here program is an incredi- In the spring of 2013 Matt Steffy ble outreach initiative that is good for salmon joined the Homer Soil and Water Con- across the Peninsula. The goal of this im- servation District team as the invasive portant program is to help encourage good pest coordinator. Since then, he has stewardship of important salmon habitat. This tirelessly and enthusiastically helped includes installing Baby Salmon Live Here signs the District promote awareness and in strategic, unsuspected places that salmon control of the invasive species causing live and need to survive, increasing awareness problems throughout the Cosmic Ham- that salmon truly surround us, sometimes even let. Some of his favorite activities in- in our own back yards. cluded regular visits to schools around The Baby Salmon Live Here project is cur- Homer to educate future generations rently being implemented across the Peninsula of land stewards. He loved getting the by KHLT and in Anchorage/Matsu by Great kids out in the woods and fields to Land Trust who developed the program in identify and remove the invasive plants 2014. It is hoped that the initiative will be state found around school properties. wide in the not too distant future. The “Chief Amazement Officer” For more information about this amazing here at Homer Soil and Water, Matt is salmon-centric program or if you would like to moving on to new challenges in get involved, please contact Denise Jantz at: Homer. Since he first arrived here, he [email protected]. has had his sights on the chief parks and recreation position with the City of Photo by KHLT: Seward resident and long-time Homer. After many great years of ser- KHLT supporter Mark vice, we are proud to see Matt move Luttrell showing off a pos- on to his dream job with the City. sible “Baby Salmon Live Here” sign location in downtown Seward. Conservation Districts work as a grassroots form of local governance authorized under state law. They create bridges between individual cooperators (landowners interested in sustainable use of the natural resources they manage) and other partners, including non-governmental organizations and all levels of government. The aim is to combine and coordinate resources to achieve shared conservation goals. The District model was established in the 1930s by Con- gress as a way to promote coordinated conservation approaches to healing soils during the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s. Join us as a cooperator! It is similar to membership in your favorite group. Being a cooperator says that you support good practices on your land (like the ones demonstrated in the Soil Health Study) but it also gets you the benefits of a voice at the District level through your vote or your presence on our board. Natural Currents Newsletter Page 4 Local Working Group Meeting of these notes.) Con- office staff and local soil and water dis- cerns shared included tricts so that this information can be private and public water shared with ag producers. The group management, resource promoted NRCS and district efforts to extraction permitting, inform ag producers about salmon- grazing land health, for- enhancing conservation practices.
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