By Ward Clark
When one is discussing farming, Alaska isn’t the first place that usually comes to mind. Most of the state isn’t good for it. Some crops do well in our short, cool summers; pumpkins, some cabbages, potatoes, and other truck crops. Many others do not. But this is changing.
No matter what the cause, summers in Alaska are a little warmer than they were when the United States bought the property from Russia. The reasons, well, we could argue those all day; ocean currents, solar cycles, the ongoing interglacial period that has been underway since the last Ice Age ended, and yes, humans have some effect.
