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Originally Posted by Exer
AeroGarden lol. I'm surprised how well that thing works. Fresh lettuce, herbs, etc all year round. Helps to do the indoor thing, since we have snow on the ground for so many months.
In the summer, outdoors, I grow raspberries, rhubarb, scallions, carrots, jalapeņo, collard greens, various other bits and pieces. I usually try something different each year, to see if we have a long enough growing season to make it worth it. Tomatoes for example do real bad in Alaska, unless you start them about 6 weeks early indoors ... and my strawberry experiment last year was a miserable failure, should have started those indoors as well.
My lady always laughs when she sees me puttering around in my garden. She likes growing flowers, I like growing FOOD 
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I'm making an effort to eat as locally as possible, although I'm not fanatic about it. I just finished reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, and she mentions in there that there is quite a movement in Alaska to eat locally even with such short growing seasons. I applaud your efforts! I had fresh lettuce this past week, too, from my local CSA. It was so good!