Growing Peonies for Cut Flowers.mp4
A "Peony Tip" from Marian Meyer of The Peony Place on how to produce a nice, big, single cut flower. This is a demonstration video on ...
Our agriculture industry small but fertile
Based on what I saw, I would say it is thriving. What was interesting to me is that these entrepreneurs/farmers have found market niches that really work for them.
It's a classic example of small business can-do that is happening without a lot of help from government other than very traditional programs of crop and soil research, small business-type loans and marketing assistance.
The days of the big state-sponsored agriculture projects, like the dairy farm project at Point MacKenzie and the state barley project near Delta, are long in the past. Our small agriculture industry has learned from those mistakes and moved on.
Unfortunately, the memory of those experiments remains with many Alaskans, particularly political leaders. Stoltze is working to change that.
Alaska agriculture is small. There are just over 300 farms in Alaska that generate more than $10,000 a year in revenue. Still, our group saw modern, high-volume produce handling and storage facilities and fields of lettuce, cabbage, and potatoes. Carrots and a variety of other vegetables are grown too, and farmers say they sell all they can grow to local grocery chains.
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