Archive

Archive for the ‘Palmer’ Category

Product of the summer

June 6th, 2010

June in Alaska is a tough time for the Eat Local crowd. Long, sunny days and yet we’re not going to see produce at the markets for another two or three weeks.

Root vegetables — potatoes, carrots, beets — are still available, but supplies are running low and they’re just not the same after being storage all winter. I miss fresh carrots in particular, which made it pretty tough to edit together this video of the Vanderweele Farm carrot harvest from last September.

Agriculture, Palmer , , , , ,

Winter hangs around

April 17th, 2010

farm-market_1078
Sign along the Glenn Highway near Palmer on Thursday, April 15.

Agriculture, Alaska, Palmer

Happy New Year

January 1st, 2010

web_5161

Photo by Stephen Nowers/AlaskaDispatch.com

The partially eclipsed blue moon sets behind the Talkeetna Mountains on New Year’s Eve, 2009.

According to Dr. Tony Phillips on the Science@NASA website “[t]he modern astronomical Blue Moon occurs in some month every 2.5 years, on average. A Blue Moon falling precisely on Dec. 31st, however, is much more unusual. The last time it happened was in 1990, and the next time won’t be until 2028.”

Palmer, Portfolio