I hope you have read, at least once, the “garden calendar” that accompanies each of these columns. The first item is always something about the Alaska Botanical Garden, an institution which I believe ...

Bicyclists cross the 15th street bridge in Anchorage headed to another garden on Thursday, July 11, 2024. With nine different stops the tour allowed participants to navigate a large part of the city. ...

Our back lawn looks like a football team ran across it in cleats, bringing up bits of rich, dark soil that slowly fade into the grass as it rains or they get stepped on. I couldn’t be happier. Our ...

This year, I decided to document my garden through the seasons. One of the incredible things about gardening in Alaska is how your garden transforms overnight. It’s magical, amazing, and perhaps why I ...

A large primnoid coral loaded with brittle stars, a marine relative of sea stars. The underwater image was captured on the Dickins Seamount during a 2004 research cruise in the Gulf of Alaska. A new ...

I was in the sunny Southwest two weeks ago, leaving while many Alaska gardens and greenhouses were slowing but still impressing with wonderful, nutritious subarctic-grown potatoes, carrots, cabbages ...

STOCKBRIDGE — "No one ever fertilizes the redwood forests," says Jeff Lowenfels, "Yet these trees live over 500 years and grow to 380 feet." Lowenfels hosts Alaska public television's most popular ...

Until about 20 years ago, little was known about the abundance of colorful cold-water corals that line sections of the seafloor around Alaska. Now an environmental group has gone to court to try to ...