"Tangle" Lakes = "illak" in Inupiaq Eskimo

There's something about wood heat in a cabin, the lingering fall and snow-capped mountains. Meandering through the 2 lane highway on to Paxson and then Tangle Lakes brought a serenity hard to find at the ranch. I suppose if I built my cabin on the butte at the ranch, it'd be nearly as good. I've come to realize that if you can't have a home on a waterfront-be at ocean, lake or river-you'd best get out whenever you can and enjoy the sweet simple comforts of camping. Then too, have you ever wondered why people spend their adult lives building a home only to retire and spend most of their time at a cabin, lake house of sorts?

Check out the Int' Culinary Tourism Association website. I find this trend fascinating!

• International Culinary Tourism Association
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• Focusing on your food and drink can drive new travelers, as well as locals, to your business or destination.
• Become a premium member of the International Culinary Tourism Association today!
• You can access our exclusive knowledge database, network with other members, read the latest industry news, attend upcoming events, collaborate within area committees, participate in community blogs and forums, promote your personal profile and much more!
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Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

Check Off for Fall

Some birds head south while others look for scraps to hoard for the winter.
Clean up that grill!

1. Finish harvest (whether its grain, hay or produce) It's calling for snow Sunday in the Delta area (or so I've heard).
   
2. Put your hoses away & close off spigots


3. Cut back perennials & pull annuals (flowers)


4. Dump soil out of pots and put them away.


5. Make sure you don't have any trash out that would attract bears.


6. Say goodbye to the birds flying south and the bears looking for a winter den.

• Calypso Farm and Ecology Center's

8th Annual Benefit Dinner and Auction

• Saturday, September 27, 2008 - Fairbanks Pike's Waterfront Lodge


• Doors open 4:30 pm, Dinner and Silent Auction start 5 pm


• Live Auction starts 7 pm, Dinner $20 Adults (13 years and older), $5 Children (5 to 12 year olds'), Children under 5 years old are free.


• All Local Meal – Live Music


• For more information, call 451-0691 or fax 451-0697

Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

Born to be WILD

For all you baby boomers out there>
http://www.newsday.com:80/news/opinion/ny-walt-babyboomers-blurb,0,1036393.blurb

Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

The Valley Balladeer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7zgKSVA9FI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryrdrhsm8YA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxV7SmR-u-g

The Valley Balladeer
Wes Hamrick

Palmer High School Alumni & friend, Wes Hamrick, sings tributes on youtube.
Wes loved snowmachines (now is a very talented snowmachine engineer/mechanic), raced them, listened to all sorts of music, sang & is a great supporter of our 1972 class reunions.
Enjoy!



Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

Short Walks for Fall

Peaks of color show themselves through fall and greenery.

Short walks with the dogs.

Fall colors at every turn.

Fireweed blows away.

Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

Flying, Family, Friends and Fall Photos

The Matanuska Valley

Traveling by ERA to and from Anchorage in the fall. Beautiful sites!

Grandson, Colton, hamming it up & photo showing the grouse Wes got. Daughter Leslie, and grandson, Landon Russell-charming little guy.
Meetings in Palmer at the Division of Agriculture. Ran into Cousin Tommy Blatchford and Aunt Lena at the airport waiting for a flight from Kenai.

I'd love to see Delta get a commercial kitchen to be able to supply vendors with a DEC approved kitchen to sell items at the Farmers' Market and other events. I hope we can move in that direction. It's a real push in the lower '48 with the swing towards "buying local", "homegrown" and "made in the USA".

Do you have for rent or interested in renting a commercial kitchen?
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If you have a commercial kitchen for rent in Alaska, let us know and we'll post it here. Interested in renting a space for your business? Let us know and we'll collect names to account for the demand in an effort to build one!» Read More

Taken from Global Food Collaborative
www.globalfoodcollaborative.com

Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

Pictures say it all

Photos of fall in & around Delta, Birch Lake and the Tanana River



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Regional Gardening Calendar for September
What gardening tasks should you be performing in September? Well, that depends on what region you inhabit. That's the beauty of regional gardening calendars. Consult this regional gardening calendar for September to see what you can be doing to ensure that your yard will remain the best it can be as we enter the autumn season.


Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com

Alaska's Food Security

Pardon me while I wonder about Alaskan's food security. As our generation moves further and further away from our grandparents' way of life (we've probably all had one grandparent who has come from a family farm), I wonder about Alaskan's food security.

Moose, caribou and other wildlife season is upon us. For those of us lucky enough to fill our freezers with Alaska's bounty of berries, meat and fish-I once again say thank you to our wonderful surroundings. That doesn't mean I don't worry about those who can't get out there and produce their own livestock, hunt, fish and gather berries, I worry alot.

This season alone, we have 3 elk producers and one dairyman going out of business. With each loss, Alaska loses its food security base. We have a Division of Agriculture. What some have suggested is that we need a Department of Agriculture & Energy-not simply a division. We also can use agricultural land to produce biofuels, there are barley burning stoves, wind farms and more. Food and shelter are paramount for existence. As we have moved further and further from the era of the family farms, we need to secure a food base for ourselves along with an alternative energy base. This is even more true for Alaskans.

E. Idaho group wants court to look at wind farms BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) - A group in eastern Idaho has requested a judicial review of the Bingham County Commissioners' approval of two wind farms. Read the entire story...

Farm income, costs spiral across West Farm incomes followed higher crop prices into record-setting territory last year, but higher expenses put a damper on the region's bottom lines. Read the entire story...

Biofuel researchers look for the good in stinkweed ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The request caught dairy farmer Brian Ziehm off guard: Would he devote an acre of his fields near the Vermont line this fall to grow stinkweed? Read the entire story...

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Ruby Hollembaek
PO Box 502
Delta Junction, Alaska
99737
business website: www.bisonandelk.com