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  • November 05, 2024

    By Adrian Kohrt Safety in the kitchen is one of the most important things to consider in your house. Forty-eight...

  • October 07, 2024

    Jars full of canned vegetablesBy Leslie Shallcross I was in the sunny Southwest two weeks ago, leaving while many Alaska gardens and greenhouses were...

  • October 04, 2024

    — Theresa Isaac Another fantastic year of community potato harvest has been completed! On Monday, Sept. 30, Amy Foote, senior...

  • September 23, 2024

    Close-up image of two hands holding a pair of tweezers and a pea flower as they work to emasculate the flowerBy Laura Weingartner Jim Myers, a professor of vegetable breeding and genetics at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon...

  • September 15, 2024

    A man in a red sweatshirt stands along a path with giant cabbages behind a fence lining one side of the pathBy Heidi Rader One of the things I’ve long been curious about is how much food Alaskans grow, hunt, fish...

  • September 09, 2024

    Yellow ribbon, yellow and orange hearts, pinned to clothesline against a white backgroundBy Reina Hasting As I see the leaves turning yellow, I know change is coming. Change in the amount of...

  • September 06, 2024

    Blue latex-gloved hands apply herbicide to a stump staining it aquamarineBy Julie Stricker In late August, another step was taken in the long process of weeding out popular but invasive...

  • August 25, 2024

    A blue plastic lunch box is filled with food, including crackers, strawberries and cherries, cucumber sticks, and riceBy Adrian Kohrt With the new school year starting, it is time to think about lunch. The best way to...

  • August 18, 2024

    Bright red currants weigh down a 4ish foot plant covered with green leavesBy Heidi Rader My favorite berries are blueberries (wild Alaska ones, of course) and raspberries, but I also have a...

  • August 11, 2024

    By Marla Lowder When people walk through the Tanana&/ces/news/160;Valley State Fair, they see exhibits by youth belonging to a group...