Sitka, Alaska (KINY) - Andrea Fraga of Middle Island Gardens and Michael Miller of Field to Fire are the winners of the sixth annual Sitka Food Business Innovation Contest, a contest that is sponsored by the Sitka Local Foods Network.
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Posted by Tash Kimmell | Jun 22, 2021
Fraga in one of her three gardens with her Corgi, Olive. (KCAW/Tash Kimmell)
It’s an uncharacteristically clear day in Sitka when Andrea Fraga picks me up in her skiff, her Corgi, Olive, in tow. The local gardener and self-proclaimed homesteader has agreed to give me a tour of the commercial garden she runs with her partner, Kaleb Aldred, a few nautical miles from downtown Sitka. As we near Middle Island Gardens, Fraga spots a bear grazing in the inlet, a foreshadowing of the majestic and wild beauty of this place.