YOU CAN’T EAT SUBDIVISIONS, GRAVEL PITS, OR STRIP MALLS.

Alaska is rapidly losing farmland and fertile soils. Each gravel pit, subdivision, highway, or non-agricultural development built on former farmland permanently undermines our ability to feed Alaskans.

Over the last ten years, an unprecedented number of acres of existing farmland across Alaska has been converted to non-agricultural uses.

In the last five years, the average size of Alaska’s farms has decreased. Farm loss is a real, present, and existential threat to our food security. According to the recent nationwide USDA Agriculture Statistics Survey, only 0.0023% of Alaska is farmland. It is critical that we protect farms near population centers, roadways, and transportation hubs from loss.

Alaska Farmland Trust (AFT) is the only organization in Alaska that works to protect scarce and irreplaceable farmland resources forever. Join us now. Help save farms by donating to Alaska Farmland Trust and asking legislators for strong, swift, and sustainable statewide support for the soils that sustain us.

ALASKA FARMLAND TRUST
Save our soils.
akfarmland.com/donate
[email protected]
907-390-9084

This piece originally appeared in Issue No. 32, Summer 2024.