Will a Native-led initiative spur an agricultural revolution in rural Alaska?
Eva Dawn Burk stands on the bank of the Tanana River in late April in her home village of Nenana, Alaska. Burk is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who is developing biomass-heated greenhouses for rural Native communities.
A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.
This story was originally published at High Country News (hcn.org) on May 28th, 2021.