Wild Foods Potluck
Dear Editor: Thank you to the 300 people who brought your delicious dishes and energizing company to Sitka Conservation Society’s Annual Wild Foods Potluck this past Sunday! This year, in particular, we celebrated everyone who advocated for the place and community we share together. In these times, it is more important than ever to work together toward a resilient future for our communities and the place we live.
Thank you to everyone who wrote letters, called your representatives, gave public testimony, voted, signed petitions, volunteered, on any of the many campaigns and issues that affected our community this year, including the Board of Fish, Tongass Land Management Plan, Roadless Rule, Stand For Salmon, and more.
Thank you to Lakota Harden who opened our potluck with a profound and moving blessing. Thank you to our potluck speakers – Aspen and Khrom from the 4-H Sitka Spruce Tips Club, Blake LaPerriere and Jaylynn Martin, Dionne Brady-Howard, Melissa Hamilton, Andrew Thoms and Heather Bauscher – who spoke to the urgency of standing together to create the world we want to live in, and showed us that taking action is possible at any age. Thank you to the talented musicians of the Lauren Wild Trio, who set the mood of the evening.
Thank you to SEATOR and 4-H for setting up informational tables at the potluck. Thank you to the Centennial Hall staff for the space and their support. And last but not least, thank you to our many, many volunteers – young and old – without whom the evening wouldn’t have gone so smoothly and successfully.
We are so grateful to live and work in the community of Sitka, and to share this evening every year with you. The lands and waters of the Tongass National Forest around us make our lives here possible, and coming together every year to share the wild foods we gather, hunt, fish, cultivate, and forage makes our community stronger. Thank you and gunalchéesh.
The Sitka Conservation Society
