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Robbi Mixon

Elevating Local Knowledge to Protect Our Salmon

By Robbi Mixon | April 5, 2022

Salmon and agriculture are two of Alaska’s most important renewable resources. Alaska’s agricultural sectors are growing faster than any other state in the nation. With the formation of both the Alaska Grown Caucus in the Alaska Legislature and the announcement by the Governor of the Food Security & Independence Task Force, farming is poised to […]

The Future of Food: Prioritizing Local and Sustainable

By Robbi Mixon | December 21, 2021

The past 18 months have illuminated the tremendous unsustainable practices and social inequities throughout many sectors, including our globalized food system. We have seen food processors fall ill from lack of sick leave and protective equipment. Severely delayed global supply chains have led to massive food waste and higher food costs. Lost incomes have exacerbated […]

Growing Sustainable Roots for Alaska’s Farmers Markets, Farm Stands, and CSAs

By Robbi Mixon | December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Alaska Farmers Market Association awarded a USDA Grant to support farmers markets, farm stands, and Community Support Agriculture Homer, AK- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $37.5 Million this year to 84 recipients across the country, including funding to Alaska’s Cook Inletkeeper, fiscal sponsor, and incubator […]

Trading Food Security, Fisheries, and Local Economies for Temporary Gains: Oppose Lease Sale 258

By Robbi Mixon | November 2, 2021

Central to most Alaskan’s plates are salmon and other foods from the sea. It’s hard to visit Kachemak Bay without also enjoying fresh oysters or beer-battered fish. Halibut and salmon are common freezer staples all year long. It’s hard to imagine Alaska without this plentiful bounty. Given our high food costs, many Alaskan families supplement […]

Tracking Your Carbon Foodprint

By Robbi Mixon | September 29, 2021

At the last Harvest Moon Festival in Soldotna, our Local Foods Program hosted a booth, with an interactive component aimed at helping event participants understand the carbon footprint of their food choices. The carbon footprint of a food, or “foodprint,” is the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced throughout its journey from seed to farm, processing […]

Living, Working, & Farming in a Salmon Landscape: Embracing an Alaskan Land Ethic

By Robbi Mixon | April 9, 2021

Conservationist and ecologist Aldo Leopold published his pivotal essay Land Ethic in 1949. Central to this essay is a call for honoring our moral responsibility to the natural world, by caring not only about ourselves, but also the land, and the inseparable relationships between them. Land Ethic demands thinking and action beyond our own immediate […]

Growing Resilient Communities: Alaska Farmers Market Association, A Year-End Review

By Robbi Mixon | December 23, 2020

To say it’s been a wild and uncertain year would be an understatement. The pandemic lockdown started just as markets and farmers around Alaska were preparing for a busy summer growing season. Would markets be allowed to open? What would farmers do with all their products? Will there be a demand for local food? So […]

People, Planet and Profits: Pillars for Building Sustainable & Equitable Food Systems

By Robbi Mixon | December 8, 2020

Food systems, like all systems, are made up of interconnected links, with change in one link inevitably affecting others. Links include all aspects of the food system, from farmers to processors, to retail and transportation. Our modern food system is focused on feeding an ever-growing world population, as efficiently and economically as possible, but often […]

GreenWave’s Regenerative Ocean Farming: A Case Study in Generating Ecosystem Services

By Robbi Mixon |

Currently about 40% of the world’s population resides within 100 kilometers from the coast, many of which depend on ocean resources to make a living, through subsistence, tourism, recreation, and other economic activities.  In 2010, 39% (123.3 million) of US citizens lived in counties directly on shorelines, with an expected 8% (10 million) increase by 2020.  […]

Local Food and Clean Water: a Matter of Community and Salmon Survival

By Robbi Mixon | September 3, 2020

Over the past five years, as we’ve developed our local foods programming, the value of building and supporting local food systems has become increasingly clear in our work to protect the Cook Inlet watershed. The United Nations refers to food, energy and water as the “nexus” of sustainable development: food production requires both water and […]

Just Transition, Alaska Native Food Sovereignty: Resiliency in Action

By Robbi Mixon | March 19, 2020

During January 2020’s first-ever Alaska Just Transition Summit, participants explored what “food sovereignty” meant to them and shared ways in which they are helping to build a more just Alaskan food system for all. This post explores the concept of self-determination within food systems, and how we got to where we are today. In his […]

Transition is Inevitable, Justice is Not

By Robbi Mixon | January 23, 2020

Kohtr’elneyh • Remembering Forward • Alaska’s Just Transition Summit, January 8 – 10, 2020 • Fairbanks Kohtr’elneyh (We Remember) is the Lower Tanana language of the Benhti’ Kenaga So what is a Just Transition? Just Transition initiatives shift the economy from dirty energy to community-controlled energy: from funding new roads to expanding public transit, from incinerators […]

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