Your mental image of an Alaskan farm probably involves a plot of land amid endless country, hemmed in only by distant, snow-capped peaks. Perhaps that image is informed by articles on “cheap” and ...

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Snow is on the mountains. There’s a nip in the October air. Patches of dirt are freezing. But reminders of the past summer’s heat are poking out of the ground at the tiny Grow ...

Employees check a line ribbon kelp, or Alaria marginata, in March at Seagrove Kelp’s Doyle Bay Farm, six miles outside of Craig, Alaska. State regulations require kelp farmers to gather seed from at ...

The boreal forest is one of the largest trappers of carbon dioxide in the world. But as Alaska warms, once frozen land is now up for grabs. Jonathan Vigliotti takes a look at the farming boom in ...

Tiffany Stephens, left, works at the Seagrove Kelp farm in Doyle Bay near Craig on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Jordan A. Hollarsmith/NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center) To optimists, the ...

Jun. 30—POINT MACKENZIE — The Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is unlike any other Alaska prison. Tucked deep in the farmlands of the Susitna Valley, the farm announces itself with a split-rail fence ...

Guests will take a coach from the museum to the Mat-Su Valley, where stops at three farms spotlight the agricultural diversity of rural Alaska. Photo Credit: Brian Kimmel The Anchorage Museum and ...

Climate change threatens many traditional foods in Alaska. But it's also making farming more possible. A new training program aims to help Alaska... You buy fish from Alaska. Soon you might get your ...

May and June bring out all the new faces. The smaller the town the more noticeable you are; people can be curious about who you are, what you’re doing, what you’re up to next. In my quest to get to ...

Even as farms decline across the US, a longer growing season is bringing food security to a state that has long relied on sustenance from afar. Between 2007 and 2017, the number of farms in Alaska ...

Saskia Esslinger realized she had miscalculated when spring came and she still had 25 pounds of kale preserved from the previous fall. It turned out living for a year only on Alaska food was much ...