Opportunities for Agriculture in Rural Alaska | Alaska Insight

Climate change is changing what Alaskans can expect during the growing season, presenting both new challenges and opportunities for fresh food in #rural #Alaska. Will residents, even in the arctic, be able to grow enough #food for their winter use and sell extra produce to others?
This week on Alaska Insight, Lori Townsend sits down with Liz Synder, director of Food Research, Enterprise, and Sustainability Hub (FRESH) at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and reporter Erin McKinstry to discuss the prospects for food security and micro-economies in remote regions of Alaska.
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[@itzakpoelzig330]

This is amazing, good for her! Every community should aim for food self-reliance.
Just a thought, but with such a short summer, cherry tomatoes will probably be the only kind that can fully ripen. The tinier the better. Although green tomatoes are perfectly delicious fried or pickled.

[@thetraveler5798]

Excelleng idea 👍 it should be more spread among the communities.💚🌎👍🚞🌄👌🐬✨🌠

[@jra7584]

Agreed

[@farmboy_907]

We need to get more farms in alaska actual farms there's a lot in delta junction but there's so much more land we need to open up for large scale farming

[@itzakpoelzig330]

As long as it doesn't become the same toxic Monsanto mess that large-scale agriculture is in the lower 48...