Traditional Foods
The Alaska Food Code allows the donation of traditional wild game meat, seafood, plants, and other food to a food service of an institution or a nonprofit program with the exception of certain foods that are prohibited because of significant health hazards. Examples of facilities that can accept these donations include residential facilities, school lunch programs, head starts and elder meal programs.
For more information contact your local Environmental Health Officer.
Requirements
Helpful Alaska Links
- ADEED Child Nutrition Program
- ADHSS Obesity Prevention and Control Program
- ADHSS Family Nutrition Programs
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game
- Farm to School Program
- National Resource Center for Alaska Native Elders
In the News
- Mixing Science with Traditional Knowledge Researchers Hope to Get Seal Oil on the Menu
- To Feed Elders, Traditional Foods Takes an Untraditional Route
- Alaska Nursing Home Asks to Serve Seal Oil to Native Clients
- Kotzebue's New Elder Tundra Garden
- Sigluaq - Maniilaq Elder's Traditional Food Facility
- It takes a village: Providing subsistence foods for Alaska hospitals and healthcare facilities
- Traditional foods on menu for Kotzebue elders
Resources
- Alaska Cooperative Extension Publications
- Alaska Family Nutrition Program
- Botulism- A Deadly Food Poisoning
- Bringing Tribal Foods and Traditions into Cafeterias, Classrooms, and Garden (USDA) (PDF)
- Donated Game Freezer Labels (PDF)
- Fiddlehead Food Safety (PDF)
- Food Bank & Donations Guidance
- Food Safety for First Nations People of Canada
- Harbor Seal Oil and Meat Brochure (PDF)
- Home Freezing of Fish
- Hunting Regulations
- Processing Game Meat
- Receipt of Donated Game Form (PDF)
- Recipes
- Service of Traditional Foods in Public Facilities (USDA) (PDF)
- Store Outside Your Door
- Traditional Food Guide
- Traditional Foods Resource Guide
- Transfer of Possession Form (PDF)
- Tundra to Table Videos
- What is Legal to Trade or Barter (PDF)
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