{"id":150016,"date":"2023-08-30T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/?p=150016"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:31:08","slug":"in-alaska-affordable-farms-are-hard-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2023\/08\/in-alaska-affordable-farms-are-hard-to-find\/","title":{"rendered":"In Alaska, Affordable Farms Are Hard to Find"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your mental image of an Alaskan farm probably involves a plot of land amid endless country, hemmed in only by distant, snow-capped peaks. Perhaps that image is informed by <\/span>articles<\/span><\/a> on \u201ccheap\u201d and abundant farmland in the far north or <\/span>articles<\/span><\/a> on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska\u2019s growing days. The 2017 U.S. Agriculture Census reports that farming in Alaska is <\/span>vibrant and expanding rapidly<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For new farmers, this isn\u2019t the whole story. Alaska is the country\u2019s largest state, with an immense amount of wilderness, yet this creates a misconception that the state is one of the few places a new farmer can find affordable farmland.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that we are a land of plenty, in that regard, is incorrect,\u201d says Phoebe Autry, who runs <\/span>Sauntering Roots<\/span><\/a> farm in Palmer, a city about 45 minutes north of Anchorage, and is the farmland conservation director at the <\/span>Alaska Farmland Trust<\/span><\/a>. Autry receives about three to four phone calls per month, as well as an email per week, from new farmers seeking land in Alaska. \u201cAbout ninety percent of these people are from outside of Alaska,\u201d says Autry. They expect land in Alaska to be cheaper, even close to major markets. Often, Autry has to dissuade them. For farmland near the largest markets in Alaska\u2014the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage\u2014Autry says, \u201cWe\u2019re looking at fair market values per acre of $25,000 to $40,000.\u201d In 2021, the USDA listed the <\/span>average value<\/span><\/a> for an acre of farmland in California at $13,860. In Florida, it\u2019s $7,300. In Kansas, it\u2019s $2,100. It did not track values for Alaska.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even farther north, farmers see similarly high prices. A new farmer might believe that the conditions in a town like Fairbanks would make farmland affordable. Much of it overlays permafrost, winter temperatures drop below -40 degrees Fahrenheit and the growing season is only four or five months long. Still, the Fairbanks North Star Borough <\/span>lists<\/span><\/a> \u201clack of available and affordable farmland\u201d as a key barrier to increasing agriculture. Fairbanks farmer Brad St. Pierre puts it bluntly: \u201cThere is no cheap farmland in Alaska.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Pierre runs a <\/span>diversified, organic vegetable farm<\/span><\/a> on a 75-acre plot with his wife, Christine. Having difficulty affording farmland in Fairbanks, the couple rents from a private landowner, about 10 miles from downtown. The farm is successful, and the St. Pierres were named the 2019 <\/span>Alaska Farm Family of the Year<\/span><\/a>. Yet, they are unsure whether the equity they build in the soil will be theirs down the line.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brad St Pierre and kids. Photography courtesy of St Pierre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Across the country, historically underserved farmers <\/span>have the most difficulty accessing land<\/span><\/a>. The U.S. Department of Agriculture <\/span>includes in that category<\/span><\/a> beginning farmers: those who have run a farm for 10 years or less. Like St. Pierre, whose family came to the U.S. from Cuba with only \u201ctheir wedding ring and the clothes on their back,\u201d these farmers rarely have family wealth or land.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without a nest egg, new farmers turn to cheaper land. That comes with pitfalls. In the far north, more affordable farmland often overlays permafrost, which causes slumping and sinkholes when it thaws. A Fairbanks <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> notes that while climate change increases growing days which many are touting as a bright future for Alaska farming\u2014warming also causes permafrost to thaw more rapidly, rendering portions of the land unusable. Glenna Gannon, assistant professor of sustainable food systems at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says that \u201cbeginning farmers often don\u2019t have a ton of capital at their fingertips, and they look at the land they can afford, not the land they need.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearing land, using plastic for high tunnels and mulch and irrigation exacerbate permafrost degradation. \u201cThose practices can be highly disruptive to permafrost, so we see an exponential rate of thaw and subsidence in the presence of some permafrost types,\u201d says Gannon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This LiDAR image shows “polygone formations” in a field near Fairbanks that was cleared in 1908 for farming and was abandoned by the 1920’s due to permafrost thaw.\u00a0Image\u00a0by Benjamin Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ultimately, farmland close to the market is the most important to preserve because it keeps these costs and risks down. But farmland near town gets more expensive when it competes with residential and business development, two more economically viable uses. \u201cWe\u2019re doing our best to preserve the best land that we have, [but] we\u2019ve lost so much of it already,\u201d says Autry. \u201cWe have a housing subdivision sitting on farmland that has 12feet of topsoil. It breaks my heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be difficult for a new farmer to come to Alaska, buy farmland close to town and turn a profit in a reasonable time, says Sam Knapp, who runs <\/span>Offbeet Farm<\/span><\/a> in Fairbanks. Maybe if the farmers are \u201ccoming in with money,\u201d Knapp says they might fare alright. Knapp\u2019s farm is in a residential area on land he purchased with income from a second job and the support of his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second incomes are often critical for farmers in Alaska. This means less time to turn a profit on the farm. Additionally, what best prepares farmers for success, such as working someone else\u2019s farm and studying for a degree, does not allow them to save money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such difficulties drive new farmers in Alaska to plots even farther from town. Like the land overlaying permafrost, these plots are cheaper to buy but more expensive to keep. Undeveloped land must be cleared and cultivated over years before planting a crop for sale. Remote land requires building water and power infrastructure, transporting goods to market and shipping in equipment and fertilizer. With such thin margins in farming, these costs are prohibitive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nels Christensen plans to farm 40 acres of his family\u2019s allotment land, 145 miles northeast of Fairbanks in the sovereign nation of Gwichyaa Zhee, also called Fort Yukon. Allotments are part of a federal program that requires Native Americans to ask for land back that the U.S. government originally took from them. Christensen dreams of returning to Fort Yukon to farm that land, yet he is hesitant to start in a place far from infrastructure and markets. Although he has gardened since childhood, he started farming one year ago, at age 21. He predicts it will be \u201cdifficult to have stability and prosper\u201d in Fort Yukon at this early stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Phoebe Autry. Photography courtesy of Autry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are <\/span>USDA grants<\/span><\/a> for beginning farmers and loans through the <\/span>Farm Service Agency<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation<\/span><\/a>. The USDA\u2019s <\/span>Natural Resources Conservation Service<\/span><\/a> and soil and water conservation districts provide free technical and financial support. Still, new farmers in Alaska find it difficult to own the land they farm. When farmers do not own, they owe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the country, there is a high concentration of <\/span>farmland in the hands of a few landholders who are aging out<\/span><\/a>. The market incentivizes their heirs to develop it for other uses. Farmland wanes and new farmers cannot afford what is left. The nation\u2019s largest, most wild state is no exception. The next generation of farmers cannot benefit from Alaska\u2019s abundant territory if communities do not find ways to help them own and keep the land best suited for the job.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your mental image of an Alaskan farm probably involves a plot of land amid endless country, hemmed in only by distant, snow-capped peaks. Perhaps that image is informed by articles on \u201ccheap\u201d and abundant farmland in the far north or articles on how climate change opens opportunities by increasing the number of Alaska\u2019s growing days. 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