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Learning to grow your own food is important in today’s economy The Anchor Gardens organization was created due to the COVID-19 shipping disruptions. Our founders realized that when our supply chain is disrupted, shelves go empty and people go hungry. Only 5% of the food Alaskans consume is produced in the state, everything else we… Read more: Reality Check: Alaska’s Food Supply

Katherine Shenk recently taught a workshop on winter sowing. This is a great method for starting certain seeds (not all seeds will do well in Alaska with this method, scroll down below the video for more tips). Winter sowing is a technique that allows you to start garden vegetables from seeds outdoors during the winter… Read more: How to winter sow in Alaska

Are you getting ready for all things SEEDS? Free Community Events start next week already! Winter Sowing Workshop Meet at the Green Connection on 15th Ave.Catherine Shenk will be demonstrating how to start your seeds early and toss them out in a snow bank in a milk jug—well, the brassicas at least. Come and get… Read more: Gardening Season 2023: Seeds!

Below are a few resources on starting garden plants from seed. We’ll add more to this list in the future! UAF Alaska Cooperative Extension’s publications on seed starting. Particularly helpful for beginners: Publication HGA-00032 Seed Starting an Transplanting Publication HGA-00040 Seed Starting with Mara Bacsujlaky Publication HGA-00134 16 Easy Steps to Gardening in Alaska Our… Read more: How to start from seed

Our friends at Yarducopia have a great video series on beginning gardening techniques! Find it on their website: Row By Row Video Series Video of Anchor Gardens workshop from 2020:

Sharp tools will make your work a lot easier! Thanks to Dohnn Wood for these tips!

Thanks to member Dohnn Wood for these tips!

Thanks to Kristi Wood for these tips on urban foraging! (Videos from 2020)

Christine from Spruce Tip Farm and Nursery recently shared this great guide on hot composting: How to: Hot Composting

Sun Circle Farm in Palmer shared this tour of their indoor growing setup in their garage. (Video originally shared in April 2020).