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...That creates an opportunity where nowhere else it exists," he said.Farmers in Fairbanks, Delta Junction and the Matanuska Valley are also taking to the crop, Floyd said.Floyd spoke of peonies' potential at Saturday's Kenai Peninsula Ag...
...significantly. There were various New Deal efforts that helped some; one of the most famous and successful was the 1935 Matanuska Valley colonization scheme by President Franklin Roosevelt. He believed that people in the depressed agricultural areas...
...positions. "His whole life is agriculture," his wife said.The Farm Family of the Year award, sponsored by the Matanuska Valley Federal Credit Union, was established by the Alaska State Fair in 2000 to honor an Alaska farming family and show...
...officials. The four, including a young child, developed a gastrointestinal sickness after drinking raw milk from a Matanuska Valley farm, the Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday. State epidemiologist Joe McLaughlin said all four - who ranged...
...children, arrived in Seward. They were the second and last big group of colonists Uncle Sam was placing in the Matanuska Valley. In 1979, after four years of research, Juneau whale biologist Chuck Juraz proved that humpback whales migrate...
...The best catnip for man or beast is cultivated on farms, primarily in the Pacific Northwest and in Alaska's Matanuska Valley. Some swear by catnip that's organically grown. ("Stoner" sways by it.) Leaves and stems of the plant are...
...necessary. It is something for Juneau residents to think about if or when the capital moves to Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley. Rep. Wilson was impressed that representatives at the regional economic meeting passed two resolutions affecting...
...Alaska Region of the U.S. Forest Service were established in Juneau. In 1924, the vegetable display from the Matanuska Valley for the Western Alaska Fair was somewhat curtailed after a horse got loose in a railroad car and ate the tops of...
...armed with permits to shoot cow moose on the Tanana Flats south of Fairbanks, the two construction workers from the Matanuska Valley had made the 300-mile drive north in hopes of filling their freezers with moose meat. "I'd prefer not to shoot...
...proliferated in popular magazines from the 1900s through the 1920s. The giant cabbage was an Alaska icon by 1934, when the Matanuska Valley experiment station produced not only cabbages but photos. One now in the archives of the Alaska and Polar Regions...