Join us for fall festivities, food & music! Music by: Hot Dish Blue Grass Learn about the legacy of Louise Kellogg, APU’s Kellogg programs, our agricultural land easement with the Great Land Trust, and tour the historic farmstead! This event is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. This is part of the 2019-20 Leah…
Spring Creek Farm
Alaska Tilth Program Helps Those in Need
Early each week, the farmers at Spring Creek Farm on Kellogg Campus walk through the fields to assess. First, they look to see which vegetables are at peak maturity and what produce can afford to sit on the vine for another week. Then, they decide who gets what in the community they serve. Signs of…
A Day in the Life of Spring Creek Farm (according to Instagram)
Each week Alaska Pacific University invites different members of it’s community to host it’s take-over Instagram account, @makingmovesatAKpacific, to show what a week at APU looks like through the eyes (and lens) of students, faculty, and staff. For much of June, staffers at our Spring Creek Farm on Kellogg Campus took control of the account, showing…
Photo Essay: Farm Welcomes Bands for Big Festival
APU’s Kellogg Campus hosted the Granite Creek Pickers Retreat for the second year this weekend. This year’s three-day soiree included 40 bands ranging from bluegrass to folk and country to cajun, as well as three dances, camping, and yard games. Photos by Kerry Nelson
Farmers Market Finds Niche in U-Med District
Though the skies above the Carr Gottstein Academic Center were an inky shade of gray, the tables on the grounds below were a feast of colors at the opening day of the APU Farmers Market. Megan Talley, of APU’s Spring Creek Farm, laid out bundles of ruby-toned rhubarb and emerald starter plants. Far North Fungi…
Spring Creek Farm CSA Taking Root
A cornucopia of riotously colorful fresh produce lays in wait in the Spring Creek Farms stand at APU’s farmers market each week during the summer. Boxes of jewel-toned zucchinis, rich-colored beets, and a myriad of multi-colored, fragrant herbs – all recently plucked – ready to go to good homes. Some of them, though, are already…
