The risks around food security are greatly increased in an area of the United States where food is roughly 4x as expensive as it is in the lower 48 states. Arctic Food Forest at the Anchorage Museum utilizes agroforestry to plant a regenerative ecosystem with Zone 5 and 6 edible perennial plants and predictive modeling to plan for a warming arctic.
“Arctic Food Forest” was built with reused IBC totes and Alaskan soils, to grow the perennial fruits that were found in fossil records during periods of increased global warming. As this project went on it was substantial that that the city of Anchorage engaged in planting more perennial edible plants in public spaces.
