It was interesting today, today we are working on completing our grant for waste to energy, recycling waste tires to home heating oil, and we are faced with another challenge that really affects Alaskans, food security as it requires too much to ship foods here and we do not grow enough of our own foods. When I was at Chena Hot Springs Resort, working as a SUSVY driver, I also worked in the restaurant for a while and really enjoyed it.
The only sad part was all of the delicious food we threw away. We had to feed the sled dogs back then and the local butcher had terrible meats one time that were rotten. I was there to walk the dogs after they delivered foul meat and it was terrible for the dogs. What Bernie did not realize was the amount of food he was throwing away each night at his resort restaurant, and while prime rib cannot be given to dogs, it is as simple as adding to your check when the server brings it out to the table, if the guest ordered steak, bacon or pork chops it can be given to the sled dog and with the Iditarod happening now, wouldn’t it be nice if the dogs got an upgrade from the wastes we already have on hand.
At our local restaurants we could designate: Dogs or Trash on the check.
According to experts, “Mushers may give their dogs steak or other treats like bacon or pork chops.” How many Alaska restaurants could separate food wastes for dogs and also sled dogs? Now for the people we hope we can use the waste heat from our three pyrolysis machines turning waste tires to home heating oil into heating for our greenhouse where we will grow vegetables and fruits and my cherry trees are coming along to provide additional delicious food. I am planning a special cherry, raspberry, blueberry and strawberry combination for this summer.
I also will have sweet peas at my home with a reading library filled with free books for kids. We must continue to work to establish our own farming and agriculture as there was a lot of interest recently as was expressed in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. I support Alaska Grown.
https://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/fairbanks-program-cultivates-the-next-generation-of-farmers-to-boost-local-food-security/article_61644494-e260-11ef-a9e7-cbb21413010e.html