Local Food Security at Risk
If you are interested in helping to preserve Alaskan farm land, this is a perfect opportunity for you! The Alaska State Fair has 40 acres of prime farmland that they are considering selling for development. The Alaska State Fair Board needs to hear from people who are concerned about local food security, as we are rapidly running out of farmable land in the Matanuska Valley. Please attend the Alaska State Fair Board meeting this Thursday March 12 at 7pm and let the Alaska State Fair Board know that you would rather see this land as part of the Alaska Farmland Trust.
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Mar 12, 2009 from 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm |
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Local Food Security at Risk
The Alaska State Fair has 40 acres of prime farmland that they are considering selling for development. The developer would like to build a commercial truck-driving school on the property, but there is another option to sell the land to the Alaska Farmland Trust for preservation as a farm.
The truck-driving school developer will present to the Fair Board this Thursday March 12 at 7pm at the Alaska Craftsman House in the Red Parking Lot of the State Fair Grounds [click here for interactive map]. Anyone and everyone can attend.
The Alaska Farmland Trust is going would like to make an offer/proposal to the Fair Board at this meeting to preserve the farmland, but they need YOUR support! The Alaska State Fair Board needs to hear from people who are concerned about local food security, as we are rapidly running out of farmable land in the Matanuska Valley. A point of interest, once the soil strata has been disturbed the land will never be suitable for farming again. The State Fair Advisory Board has heard no opposition to their impending decision to sell this land for development.
If you are interested in helping to preserve Alaskan farm land, this is a perfect opportunity! Please
let them know that you would rather see this land as part of the Alaska Farmland Trust than developed as a trucking school.
If you can't attend the meeting please contact contact:
The Alaska State Fair
Ray Ritari: Fair Manager 907-745-4827
Fair Board
President: John Harkey 907 745 2940, jdharkey@yahoo.com
Vice President: Bonnie Quill 907 745 3648
Secretary: Peter Probasco 907 745 8246
Treasurer: J. Bruce Bush 907 746 2874
Director: John W. Erickson, Jr. akswedes@mtaonline.net
Director: Carol Kenley 907 355 4587
Director: Charlie Willis 907 373 3138
Here is a quote from the fair's own website "the heart of the Fair still centers on the things the original colonists started with – agriculture, lots of food, flowers, friends and family, and an old-fashioned, good
time." Lets hold the board accountable to this statement!
You can also support the Alaska Farmland Trust financially with a donation
at this web address http://www.akfarmland.com/.
You can also become a member of the Alaska State Fair by calling 907 745
4827, and make a difference that way. For $150 you can become a life member
or for $15 an annual member.
