(Anna Canny/KTOO) 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 ...

On opening day for Grow North Farm’s third season, Cherry Tacang walked between her neat rectangular plots teeming with vibrant greens. “This is mustard greens, and this one is bok choy, and this one ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It’s a problem we all face: what to do with all those leftover vegetables so they don’t go to waste? The Alaska State Fair, in conjunction with the Alaska Wildlife ...

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 ...

Mark Butler from the Spenard Farmers Market puts it simply: “We are at the point where there are piles and piles of produce at the market. The cooler weather means that farmers are harvesting all ...

Tim Meyers stands in one of his many high tunnels at his farm in Bethel, Alaska. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media) Tim Meyers and his wife Lisa run Meyers Farm in Bethel, Alaska. What started as 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 ...

Much like Alaskans, our veggies reacted one of two ways to the record-breaking heat: They loved it or they hated it. This week’s farmers markets will show which vegetables thrived and which wilted.

Schreiner, an enrolled member of the Inupiaq in Valdez, Alaska, says her vision is to be a hub for tribal food and farming.

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 ...