Farm
Common Ground Alaska
A 4-acre teaching farmstead in Big Lake, Alaska — Mat-Su Valley. Mission: 'To build a community of Alaskans that can achieve food freedom through sustainable, simple, and traditional living.' Operates an orchard (apples, currants, honeyberries, saskatoons, cherries) and a large greenhouse for cold-climate production; runs U-pick by appointment, a plant nursery, educational classes and workshops, a winter blacksmithing program (The Forge), and publishes Sustainable Alaska Magazine. Hosts the annual Alaska Homestead Expo and runs the Alaska Homestead Academy.
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Common Ground Alaska is a 4-acre teaching farmstead in Big Lake, AK — Mat-Su Valley, [[cook-inlet|Southcentral Alaska]]. [[mission-district-sf|Mission]]: “To build a community of Alaskans that can achieve food freedom through sustainable, simple, and traditional living.”
Integrated operations:
- Orchard — apples, currants, honeyberries, saskatoons, cherries (the cold-climate fruit cultivars that grow at Alaska’s latitude)
- Large greenhouse for season-extension production
- U-pick fruit and berries, by appointment
- Plant nursery — selling cold-climate-adapted starts to other Alaska homesteaders
- The Forge — winter blacksmithing operation creating knives and homestead tools
- Educational programming — Sustainable Alaska Magazine, podcasts, YouTube content
- Alaska Homestead Expo — annual gathering for Alaska homesteaders
- Alaska Homestead Academy — curriculum-based instruction
Access: by appointment only.
Why it’s listed
[[directory|The directory]] cares about food-sovereignty operations that build local-region capacity for the people who live there. Common Ground Alaska is doing exactly that: in a state that imports 85-90% of its food, the operation explicitly teaches Alaskans to grow, preserve, and craft their own — orchard cultivars that work at high latitude, greenhouse season-extension, blacksmith tools for homestead work, a magazine-and-expo ecosystem that knits together other practitioners. That’s substrate-builder work at the scale that actually shifts a region’s food-dependency profile.
The “By Appointment Only” access is itself a substantive choice — it filters for committed visitors and protects the farm from agritourism dilution.
Bioregional fit
Big Lake is in the Mat-Su Valley, the agricultural anchor of [[cook-inlet]] / [[cook-inlet|Southcentral Alaska]].
See also
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- Instance of: [[farm]]
- Shares approach with: [[food-sovereignty]]
- Contained by: [[cook-inlet]]
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- Common Ground Alaska
- OpenStreetMap: original tag
Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[food-sovereignty]].
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[cook-inlet]] in [[directory|the directory]].
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