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How Does Your Garden Grow? Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Rachel Lord Tonights Agenda! Inletkeeper overview Food security Watershed friendly gardens Water quality & irrigation G.A.P. (not the store) Head to the lab for

How Does Your Garden Grow? Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Rachel Lord
Tonight’s Agenda! • Inletkeeper overview • Food security • Watershed ‐ friendly gardens • Water quality & irrigation • G.A.P. (not the store) • Head to the lab for soil testing!
Cook Inletkeeper
Cook Inletkeeper Clean water Healthy salmon Engaged Alaskans Clean energy Strong communities
Gardening?
Food Security 95% of our food is imported! =$1.9 billion spent on food from Outside
Climate Change
Food Miles Direct farmer sales rose 32% in Alaska between 2007 ‐ 2012! Over $4million in high tunnel grants from USDA to Alaskans
Your Garden Care Seeds Weather Water Planning Food! Soil Storage
Revolution!
Watersheds www.hawp.org
Watersheds Upstream You Downstream Watershed Water Quality
Groundwater vs. Surface Water www.ruralwaterresources.com
Septic Systems
Fuel Tanks
Stormwater
Fertilizers/Pesticides
Riparian Zones 50’ Habitat Protection District in the KPB ADF&G Anadromous Waters Catalog www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/SARR/AWC www.cowsandfish.org
Water Quality Testing • Water source • Treatment? • Parameters • Cost & Quality
G.A.P. Good Agricultural Practices
Irrigation
Irrigation Extension.psu.edu
Water Rights Alaska DNR Water is a common property resource in Alaska The legal right to use surface or ground water Stays with the land! “Significant” amount of water
Invasive Species
Invasive Species Prevention & Education Training FREE! April 24, 2015 1 ‐ 4:30PM Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Weed Management Area, Homer SWCD, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve www.kenaiweeds.org or call 235 ‐ 8711 x5
Questions?
Soil Testing: Overview • Timing matters • Sampling methods matter • Sending off samples • Cooperative Extension guidance! www.aganytime.com • Hanna Meter Overview www.jaspercounty.org
pH From Jodie Anderson’s AK Farm to School Conference Talk, Jan 2015
Conductance Hanna meters read in uS/cm. To convert, divide by 1000. EXAMPLE: 589 uS/cm = .586 mmhos/cm or .586 dS/m
Resources Brookside Laboratories (www.blinc.com/soils.htm, 419.977.2766) Alaska Cooperative Extension (Janice Chumley) (www.uaf.edu/ces/districts/kenai/, 907.262.5824) Homer Soil & Water Conservation District (www.homerswcd.org, 235.8177 x5) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS Homer Office) 235.8177 x107 NRCS Web Soil Survey (websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/) KPB GIS Parcel Viewer (mapserver.borough.kenai.ak.us/kpbmapviewer) ADF&G Anadromous Waters Catalog (www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/SARR/AWC) ADNR Water Rights in Alaska (dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/water/wrfact.cfm) Water Testing (inletkeeper.org/clean ‐ water/safe ‐ drinking ‐ water/get ‐ your ‐ water ‐ tested) Cook Inletkeeper (www.inletkeeper.org) Homer Farmers Market (www.homerfarmersmarket.org) Sustainable Homer (www.sustainablehomer.org) Alaska Marine Conservation Council (www.akmarine.org)

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