Variable Food Production Results at a Remote Alaska Home

Please click on this link to an article we published on survivalblog.com.

Summary: 
Raising (including hunting and fishing) food (meat, fruit, vegetables, herbs, and honey) yields highly variable results from one year to the next so we are not cavalier about a good harvest.

Here are some of our successes and failures, lessons, and mistakes.



Photo: Nasturtium vinegar.  So beautiful, and tasty, too, with a horseradish like bite. 






Photos relevant to content of the linked article.

Photo left:  This bear yielded many, much appreciated meals.

          Photo right:  In the winter, the    rabbits enjoy the   greenhouse.

 

Photo above left:  In the summer they live in hutches.  One of the albinos kindled 9 babies last week.

 

Photo above right:  A handful of gooseberries and raspberries.

My husband inspecting the beehives (we raise buckfast)

The hens love yogurt that has "turned"