Dulce Ben-East (left) talks with employees including SueEllen Bontrager about testing trees for sap. Ben-East was hoping to tap trees today, but colder-than-expected temperatures mean the crew is ...
If you've ever been to a wine tasting, you've probably seen people swish sips of it in their mouths to evaluate the flavor. In a University of Alaska Fairbanks test kitchen, that's exactly what food ...
Sap processed into candies, syrup -- even dog biscuits. PALMER, Alaska -- Michael East rolls his slicing tool back and forth over a 50-pound slab of birch cream caramels, slowly cutting the rich pecan ...
Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. Think of it as a companion to Jeff’s weekly ADN gardening columns ...