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 ...

Cousins Viva Johnson (left) and Bernadette Pete harvest celery with instructor Leonardo Sugteng’aq Wassilie at Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Johnson and Pete can’t ...

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 ...

On Aug. 18, 1983, 24-year-old Bacci Perata sat by Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, gazing at Alaska’s beautiful mountain scenery. His summer job in Alaska fishing for sockeye salmon was over and ...

Alaska Farm Tours' excursions visit a selection of farms in Talkeetna and Palmer, Alaska. Photo Credit: Tom Bol/Mat-Su CVB In America's largest state, in a valley tucked between the country's tallest ...

“All right,” announces Jenni Medley, wiping her hands on her faded black Carhartts and consulting a clipboard. “The birds are bagged. Total number is 70.” It’s 3 in the afternoon, and just outside a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. Growing up in rural Alaska, Eva Dawn ...