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Amy Young

Farm Manager at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, Alaska, and recurring guest on Big Cabbage Radio's "From the Farm."

Oct 6, 2026

9:34
Where's that parking lot?
9:35
So that parking lot is just past the farm.
9:38
So if you take the roundabout on Trunk Road and come down South George Street, you'll pass the entrance towards the hospital, you'll pass our farm, and you'll kind of go through, like along our fields and up a hill.
9:50
And right as you crest the top of the hill, on your right there will be a entrance to a gravel parking lot, and that's the Kinwin Trailhead.
9:57
And it's nice 'cause you get to see some of our fields.
10:00
There is some signage noting to not enter our fields 'cause there is research that happens there during the summer.
10:06
And so we, we ask people to respect that stepping on those fields is damaging to things we have there.
12:09
And where are we now that we're looking at this year? How does this sort of, kind of compare to 100 years ago?

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