Skagway Brewing Co. harnesses the carbon dioxide it produces making beer to fuel their aeroponic garden. That’s adding a layer of food security to Southeast Alaska community.
Food
In Anaktuvuk Pass, a gardener brings new life to ancient foods with Arctic agriculture
Some of her recipes mix traditional and western plants, like pesto made with mashu or Eskimo potato.
Mark Begich, frustrated by rural Alaska’s exorbitant prices, is opening a grocery store in Utqiaġvik
Begich says his company, Stuaqpak Inc., will offer lower prices and better products, and be more accountable to residents than the Canadian corporation that ran the store previously.
Gardentalk – Season finale on cleanup and the last of the veggies
Beets, carrots and parsnips actually benefit from being left in the ground during the early fall, because freezing temperatures enhance their sugar content.
There’s a new fight over Bering Sea black cod. Warming water may be to blame.
A new fight is brewing over black cod because there are so many of them — possibly as a result of the ocean’s warming waters.
Who will be the fattest Katmai brown bear? Forget Beadnose, Holly is like the ‘Michelin Man.’
A dozen Alaska brown bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve are competing for the title of fattest bear during the park’s annual Fat Bear Week.