Donating Traditional Foods for ANMC Patients
Did you know that you can donate hunted and gathered foods to the inpatient food service program at the Alaska Native Medical Center? Traditional foods are healing, nourishing medicine for our people and your donations will be greatly appreciated by our patients at ANMC.
Donations we can accept:
- Most wild game meat and bones (caribou, moose, deer, sheep, goat and beaver): must be whole, quartered, or roasts; meat cannot be ground
- Most fish and seafood: must be gutted and gilled, with or without heads
- Seal meat and fat
- Plants and berries: whole, fresh or frozen
All donated items that are received will be used in their entirety. Any leftover, trim or items deemed “unservable” will be distributed to organizations that will utilize them in animal consumption, and waste will go to local organizations that will use it (i.e. Alaska Zoo, Raptor Rehabilitation, etc.)
Donating traditional foods
If you are interested in donating traditional foods to ANMC, please contact (907) 729-2682 or send an email to nativefood4life@anthc.org. If you are interested in helping out with ANMC’s Traditional Native Foods Initiative but do not have access to traditional foods to donate, you can make a donation to the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation by visiting healthyalaskanatives.org/donate/.
- How to donate [PDF]
Wish list:
| Juniper berries | fiddlehead fern | Moose | salmon |
| Cedar leaf | spruce tips | Deer | halibut |
| Currants all varieties | sorrel | Caribou | cod |
| Cultivated Rhubarb | plantain | Bison | shiifish |
| Crab Apples | pineapple weed | Musk Ox | hooligan |
| Nasturtiums | sour dock | Goat | herring |
| beach asparagus | labrador tea | Sheep | herring eggs |
| Bull kelp bulb and whip | fireweed blooms | Elk | Octopus |
| bull kelp ribbon | fireweed leaves | Snow Shoe Hare | lingcod |
| beech greens | fireweed shoots | Seal | rockfish |
| black sea weed | dandelion root | Beaver | grayling |
| Bladder wrack | dandelion greens | Squirrel | black cod |
| goose tongue | dandelion blooms | flounder | |
| Lovage | rose petals | pike | |
| wild rhubarb | rose hips | salmon eggs | |
| blueberries | devils club buds | salmon heads | |
| huckleberries | Wild Chive | Trout | |
| crowberries | nettles | whitefish eggs | |
| cloud berries | birch water | Whitefish | |
| salmon berries | chamomile | ||
| HBCranberries | eskimo potato | ||
| LBCranberries | lambs quarter | ||
| Birch Bark Flour | nagoon berries | ||
| Cottonwood bud | forget me not blooms | ||
| Chaga | chickweed | ||
| Wild Rice (chocolate lily) | cattails | ||
| Yarrow | thimble berries | ||
| wild strawberries | raspberries | ||
| wild celery | gooseberries | ||
| watermelon berries | Strawberry Spinach | ||
| Elderberries | Clover | ||
| Stinkweed | sea lovage | ||
| Cultivated Tree fruits | Birch flour |
