Meet Peter Miller, he is the Stone Soup Community Garden Manager. He oversees the most unique community garden in interior Alaska, where the garden is meant for growing food to serve those who are food insecure, he also created an eating garden that is open to anyone who wants to stop by and grab some fresh produce. No questions asked.

Built by volunteers in 2015, and with donations of land, plants, and water, the Stone Soup Garden grows around 2-thousand pounds of food for the city’s most at-risk.

The food harvested from Stone Soup Garden goes to the Bread Line, which is a non-profit that runs a café serving free nutritious breakfasts and sack lunches. Some of the food also goes to the elderly and those with disabilities.

The Stone Soup Community Garden is a project to provide the best possible fresh & local food to people experiencing food insecurity in downtown Fairbanks.

The garden’s first season, in 2015, harvested over 500 pounds of produce. The following year, harvest more than tripled! Ever since, the Stone Soup Community Garden has been growing & changing to meet needs of the community and fulfilling its anti-hunger mission. The garden now dedicates beds to an “eating garden” so hungry people can pick produce right at the source.

This is a gem, an oasis right downtown Fairbanks, Alaska. Check it out, you may be inspired to help tend to the garden, donate time or money or just grab a handful of snap peas.

When people talk about The Folk School, the typical response is, huh, what is that? or Is this here? What do they do? Is it a charter school ? Well, in reality, It’s a collective that teaches lots of arts, traditional crafts, outdoor skills of all kinds, building and crafting skills such as carpentry, blacksmithing, tool maintenance, etc. to people of all ages. A place like a folk school provides a venue to share what you know and pass lifetimes of knowledge through generations.

The Folk School is an incredible Fairbanks institution, full of really friendly, talented people from a broad range of backgrounds, They have been around for over 25 years!

The Folk School offers classes and programs for all ages in a wide variety of hands-on disciplines including: traditional crafts, woodworking, fiber arts, boat building, wilderness skills, visual arts, music, farming, gardening, food preservation, log construction, and so much more!

Folk School is open year around, one of the foundational programs of The Folk School is Week in the Woods. This program stemmed from the idea that it is important to know the context of the materials we use in craft. Rather than make an object from materials you purchase in a store, it is far more informative and fun to harvest the materials yourself.

Check them out! They are located in Fairbanks, Alaska in the Alaskaland park, Cabin 66. You probably have walked by it many times. Look them up on their website

https://folkschool

You will be amazed at the good woirk they do!

Does tea really grow anywhere other than India and China? Well, it can! even when its cold, dark and temeratures are -35 to -50 degrees fahrenheit. It can grow in Faiurbanks Alaska and quite successfully.

Meet Jenny Tse, owner of Sipping Streams Tea Company in interior Alaska. Her company is the only tea manufacturing company in Alaska, she has the only farthest north tea farm in the world, and of course now has successfully grown tea in Alaska using geothermal environment in high tunnels.

Her teas are award winning. Her best seller is 1000 mile tea that travels with the Yukon Quest mushers. Take a listen to her interview with me. You will get to know a young entreprenuer whose passion and "lets try" attitude is infectious and inspiring.

If you can, get some of her teas, order online at www.sippingstreams.com or visit her retail store in Fairbanks.