Rebuilt cafe, new community greenhouse springing up in Tenakee
Kevin’s Greenhouse project on Raven Radio!
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What in the World is Kevin Up to Now?
We are all aware of the amazing geothermal heating projects Kevin Allred has undertaken and completed since the Allreds moved to Tenakee. By heating the bathhouse, the store, the museum, the warehouse, and several residences with clean free geothermal energy , Kevin proved the experts wrong. We are also all aware that for the past…
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Prince of Wales Aquaponics Tour
by Kevin Allred On April 13th, Carlene Allred and I traveled to Prince of Wales Island to join a large group touring three aquaponic greenhouses located in Coffman Cove, Thorne Bay, and Kasaan. The tour was hosted by REAP (Renewable Energy Alaska Project), and had participants mostly from Alaska, but also two folks from Canada.…
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Tenakee Community Garden Breaks Ground
By Wendy Stern The 2017 TKE Community Garden has begun! We have seeds. We have beautiful soil. We have gardeners. We have lots of sun and we even have a 42 year old rototiller, donated by the Carters, that works to beat the band. We are merrily throwing seed in the beds and a few…
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Tenakee Springs is a fishing town
by Tracy Rivera, F/V Good News Tenakee Springs is a true fishing town. Our population is just over 100 and there are 10 commercial boats moored in the harbor year round. Salmon trollers, crabbers, shrimpers and longliners. There is also one fishing charter operation in Tenakee. These 11 boats feed and provide for over 30…
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Tenakee Springs Harbor Uplands and Community Clean up, 2018
When news spread around Tenakee this summer that a big landing craft was going to be delivering some goods to town, the Recycle Tenakee group started thinking about this as an opportunity to do a much-needed cleanup and get some accumulated junk and trash out of Tenakee, leaving on the outgoing landing craft. Tenakee ‘old-timers’…
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Recent Happenings: Roadless Meeting in Tenakee
By Steve Lewis On September 19th, the Forest Service hosted a question-and-answer session for the proposed changes to the 2001 Roadless Rule, which “establishes prohibitions on road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands” (2001 Roadless Rule). The gathered audience unanimously opposed reducing roadless protections…
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Food on the Table: a Photo Celebration of Local Food
Photo by Molly Kemp Photo by Wendy Stern Table by John Wisenbaugh Photo by Steve Lewis Photo by Vicki Wisenbaugh Photo by Nick Olmsted “Hobbits have a passion for mushrooms, surpassing even the greediest likings of the big people” -J R.R. Tolkien Photo by Molly Kemp Photo by Karen Wilson Photo by Justin Moody Photo…
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Tidal Action, The Journey
This Tidal Action was our way of joining the 2017 March for Science. Check out our story “As Sea Levels Rise, so should our action and concern.” Participants (clockwise from top): Wendy Stern, Lena Sorenson, Molly Kemp, Megan Moody, Davi Richardson, Kathleen Dean Moore, Joan McBean Behind the Scenes
As Sea Level Rises, So Should Our Action and Alarm
by Kathleen Dean Moore & Megan Moody *Published in High Country News At low tide, the sea is still a quarter-mile away across a broad expanse of wilderness beach in Southeast Alaska. On the far side of the inlet, green mountains turn gray as a squall skids through. Seven women walk toward a lone pinnacle…
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