Chef Amy to discuss healing and ֱֻ Native traditional foods

Two women pull potatoes in a field with farm buildings and mountains in the background.
Photo courtesy of Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center
Amy Foote, left, and Jodie Anderson harvest Tlingit and Haida potatoes, traditional ֱֻ Native foods that were served to patients at ֱֻ Native Medical Center.

Join the ֱֻ Cooperative Extension Service and chef Amy Foote for a lunch and learn session titled “Finding Healing in ֱֻ Native Traditional Foods.” Foote is director of cuisine for NANA Management Services and formerly was the executive chef at the ֱֻ Native Medical Center in Anchorage.

Participants can join Foote in person at the ֱֻ Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center, 1509 Georgeson Road, Palmer, or via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9. The discussion will center on ֱֻ Native traditional foods and healing, both personally and for our communities.

if you plan to attend either in person or via Zoom. You will receive an email with a link to join the class. If you are unable to attend the class but would like to listen in later, you may still register, and all registrants will receive a recording of the class.

Feel free to bring your lunch if you plan to attend in person.

For more information, contact Melissa Clampitt at mrclampitt@alaska.edu or 907-745-3551.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance to Clampitt. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency upon request to amnorris2@alaska.edu

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