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U-pick farms are becoming more real. After ww2, a group of people replied to a govt experiment as homesteaders to see if farming was possible in Alaska. A wide valley with mountain ranges that had shed volcanic minerals for millenia was selected, and the Army blazed a road thru the Canadian/Alaska wilderness. That settlement and the skills those pioneers brought, served to create mass veggies and fruits in the 20hrs sunlit summers. It helped to establish military bases and a core of settlers who eventually became the Alaskans to develop the Oil and Gas Industries as well.
I go to one such farm called Pyrahs U-pick. Several of us careshare to this valley as a day trip, and each carry coupla 6gal buckets. We split up. I might fill my buckets with beets then cabbage, which I would take home and can into pickled beets and plain, sauerkraut, relish, and plain. Others might be getting different varieties of squash, raspberries or whatever.On the way out, a set price per pound is paid when the full buckets are weighed and the tare subtracted. Somewhere down the road we have a luncheon and swap inventory. I offer this as a possible option when you are not an experienced gardener, but can learn to can fairly quickly.
U-pick farms are becoming more real. After ww2, a group of people replied to a govt experiment as homesteaders to see if farming was possible in Alaska. A wide valley with mountain ranges that had shed volcanic minerals for millenia was selected, and the Army blazed a road thru the Canadian/Alaska wilderness. That settlement and the skills those pioneers brought, served to create mass veggies and fruits in the 20hrs sunlit summers. It helped to establish military bases and a core of settlers who eventually became the Alaskans to develop the Oil and Gas Industries as well.
I go to one such farm called Pyrahs U-pick. Several of us careshare to this valley as a day trip, and each carry coupla 6gal buckets. We split up. I might fill my buckets with beets then cabbage, which I would take home and can into pickled beets and plain, sauerkraut, relish, and plain. Others might be getting different varieties of squash, raspberries or whatever.On the way out, a set price per pound is paid when the full buckets are weighed and the tare subtracted. Somewhere down the road we have a luncheon and swap inventory. I offer this as a possible option when you are not an experienced gardener, but can learn to can fairly quickly.
