Alaska needs farmers. Farmers need farmland.

By: Margaret Adsit

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: October 14, 2026

Words: 728

Last Updated: 3 days, 7 hours ago

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This summer, I stood with a landowner at the edge of a hayfield her parents cleared more than 60 years ago. Wisps of her grey hair caught in the wind, and her eyes narrowed as she looked out over her farmland ground, thinking about so many neighboring farms that have been converted to gravel pits and subdivisions.

“Converting this should be considered a sin,” she told me. “My parents would be sick to …

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