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Dr. Birger Baastrup DC,CCSP, Dr. Baastrup has been practicing chiropractic for the last 40 years here in Juneau, Alaska helping families regain better function and health. He is active with hiking, skiing, martial arts, kayaking, biking and paddleboarding as well as photography. He has given presentations at previous garden conferences, has attended several international sporting events as part of the medical team and is a contributor to the book 1 Habit for Entrepreneurial Success.
City Center Chiropractic
City Center Chiropractic
Charles Dowding will joining us all the way from England to talk about no-till gardening and organic composting.
Charles Dowding, educated at Cambridge University, has created timesaving methods of organic, and especially no dig gardening. Charles also conducts trials and publicise new ways of growing, picking, marketing salad leaves, and of multi-sowing vegetables. Since 1982 he has created and cultivated four no dig market gardens on different soils: stony, silt, white and ordinary clay. In the 1980s his garden covered 7.5 acres (3ha) of no dig beds and was less intensive than now. The growing methods are as applicable for small areas as large ones. Currently, Charles cultivates intensively 0.33 acres/1300 square metres in Somerset, SW England, for local sales of salad leaves and vegetables. He has written 11 books and two more on the way, articles for national gardening magazines, and regular uploads of videos to my You Tube channel. Plus Charles gives talks and courses at home and abroad. Charles and his “No Dig” method has been written about in the New York Times. https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/post/charles-dowdings-life-and-his-story-of-no-dig
Charles Dowding, educated at Cambridge University, has created timesaving methods of organic, and especially no dig gardening. Charles also conducts trials and publicise new ways of growing, picking, marketing salad leaves, and of multi-sowing vegetables. Since 1982 he has created and cultivated four no dig market gardens on different soils: stony, silt, white and ordinary clay. In the 1980s his garden covered 7.5 acres (3ha) of no dig beds and was less intensive than now. The growing methods are as applicable for small areas as large ones. Currently, Charles cultivates intensively 0.33 acres/1300 square metres in Somerset, SW England, for local sales of salad leaves and vegetables. He has written 11 books and two more on the way, articles for national gardening magazines, and regular uploads of videos to my You Tube channel. Plus Charles gives talks and courses at home and abroad. Charles and his “No Dig” method has been written about in the New York Times. https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/post/charles-dowdings-life-and-his-story-of-no-dig
Nick Morgan is a Senior Meteorologist with the NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE in Juneau, serving the people of Southeast Alaska. He began his career at the National Weather
Service office in Atlanta, Georgia, but fell in love with Alaska and has spent the past few years focused on all things Alaska weather. Nick works with local communities to help
people understand how weather impacts everything, from daily plans to long-term projects. He’s always happy to talk about what’s happening in the sky, and how it affects what’s
happening on the ground. nicholas.j.morgan@noaa.gov 907-790-6802
Service office in Atlanta, Georgia, but fell in love with Alaska and has spent the past few years focused on all things Alaska weather. Nick works with local communities to help
people understand how weather impacts everything, from daily plans to long-term projects. He’s always happy to talk about what’s happening in the sky, and how it affects what’s
happening on the ground. nicholas.j.morgan@noaa.gov 907-790-6802
Jozef (Joey) Slowik has long held an interest in the lesser invertebrates. Originally from Colorado, he studied arachnology while working at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science before moving back to Alaska to obtain a MS in Biology from UAF studying Wolf Spiders and Alaska’s diverse arachnid fauna. He spent much of the last few decades doing fisheries work in Southeast and arachnids on the side prior to moving to Palmer in 2020 where he works as the Integrated Pest Management Technician at the Matanuska Experiment Farm. He is the author of over 20 spider related publications as well as the weekly Bug of the Week facebook post.
My name is Scott Hansen and my farm is Sunnyside Farms of Haines.
Sunnyside Farms of Haines has about five acres under cultivation, and we grow primarily seed potatoes and carrots for commercial sale, along with cucumbers in a 24x24 greenhouse. Our farm has been in existence for eight years, involving two fields.The majority of the labor on the farm is accomplished with a combination of hand work & machinery.
Sunnyside Farms of Haines has about five acres under cultivation, and we grow primarily seed potatoes and carrots for commercial sale, along with cucumbers in a 24x24 greenhouse. Our farm has been in existence for eight years, involving two fields.The majority of the labor on the farm is accomplished with a combination of hand work & machinery.
John Krapek, from JUNEAU GREENS, came to Juneau in 2013 and noticed the opportunity for fresher, locally-sourced produce at the grocery store. He has a lifelong interest in botany and gardening. After completing his Master's degree in forest ecology at UAF, studying yellow-cedar trees throughout southeast Alaska, he met Trevor and they began to talk about local food production. www.juneaugreens.com/
Gino Graziano is a specialist in invasive plants and their management at UAF Cooperative Extension Service, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) team. He has participated in assessments of invasive plants, and does research on invasive plant control and managing the fate of pesticides in the environment. The IPM team has a variety of projects including managing root maggots, using biocontrols for management of knotweeds and other species, and various control projects.
gagraziano@alaska.edu
gagraziano@alaska.edu
Isabel Grant is an Alaska Representative for the national non-profit organization, Defenders of Wildlife. She manages Defenders of Wildlife’s human-bear coexistence programs in Alaska, including the Electric Fence Incentive Program on the Kenai Peninsula and in Southeast Alaska. Isabel collaborates with local agencies, organizations, and Tribes on projects that promote coexistence between humans and bears in Alaskan communities.