Successful Tundra Farming

[kalibex]

Might this be one way to survive and even thrive in a colder environment?

The only farmer between Anchorage, 500 miles to the east, and Russia, about the same distance to the northwest, Meyers wonders why he is so alone. When he looks out across the treeless landscape that rolls southwest in ponds, wetlands and tractor-high hills all the way to the Bering Sea, he sees what an earlier generation of Americans saw on the Great Plains: A rich, fertile and treeless landscape. A landscape where you can start farming without a bunch of time-consuming and costly land clearing. And a landscape with another big plus.

"It's a delta where there's been millions of salmon going up the river every year and washing out to sea," he said. Those spawned-out salmon float down the river to become natural fertilizer.

"I grew 50,000 pounds of food last year," Meyers said. "I've got a root cellar I can keep that and sell it all winter."

Entire article at: _http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130609/farm-flourishes-alaska-tundra_

 

[Renaissance]

very cool, thanks kalibex. I had been reading about how farms can revive desert land but hadn't come across anything about cold weather farming. Seems the key is to utilize partially buried greenhouses, or something along those lines. I had been thinking in similar terms about building an underground aquaponics system with an above ground greenhouse. Nice to see this guy is successful in temperatures of -50 degrees!

 

[Atuya]

Methinks a better way to survive in a cold environment is to hunt for meat, fatty meat. ;D