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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

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Rachel Lord

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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!

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Cook Inletkeeper

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Cook Inletkeeper

Clean water Healthy salmon Engaged Alaskans Clean energy Strong communities

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Gardening?

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Food Security

95% of our food is imported! =$1.9 billion spent on food from Outside

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Climate Change

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Food Miles

Direct farmer sales rose 32% in Alaska between 2007‐ 2012! Over $4million in high tunnel grants from USDA to Alaskans

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Your Garden

Food!

Soil Water Seeds Care Weather Planning Storage

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Revolution!

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Watersheds

www.hawp.org

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Watersheds

Watershed Water Quality

Downstream

You

Upstream

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Groundwater vs. Surface Water

www.ruralwaterresources.com

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Septic Systems

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Fuel Tanks

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Stormwater

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Fertilizers/Pesticides

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Riparian Zones

www.cowsandfish.org

50’ Habitat Protection District in the KPB ADF&G Anadromous Waters Catalog www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/SARR/AWC

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Water Quality Testing

  • Water source
  • Treatment?
  • Parameters
  • Cost & Quality
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G.A.P.

Good Agricultural Practices

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Irrigation

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Irrigation

Extension.psu.edu

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Water Rights

Alaska DNR Water is a common property resource in Alaska The legal right to use surface

  • r ground water

Stays with the land! “Significant” amount of water

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Invasive Species

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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

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Questions?

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Soil Testing: Overview

www.jaspercounty.org

  • Timing matters
  • Sampling methods matter
  • Sending off samples
  • Cooperative Extension

guidance!

  • Hanna Meter Overview

www.aganytime.com

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pH

From Jodie Anderson’s AK Farm to School Conference Talk, Jan 2015

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Conductance

Hanna meters read in uS/cm. To convert, divide by 1000. EXAMPLE: 589 uS/cm = .586 mmhos/cm or .586 dS/m

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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)