Publications

100 Years of Alaska Agriculture, Agroborealis Vol. 30, No. 1.

Marking the centennial of experiment station work in Alaska, this review begins with Alaska’s first experiment station in Sitka, covers development of the other experiment station sites, and includes stories on Charles Christian Georgeson and George T. Gasser, the development of strawberry cultivars in Alaska, Alaska's reindeer industry, and more.

"Throw All Experiments to the Winds": Practical Farming and the Fairbanks Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1915

This senior thesis is a history of the establishment and progress of the Fairbanks Experiment Station from 1905 to 1915 that also evaluates the station's influence on agriculture in the Tanana Valley. It is based on University of Alaska Fairbanks archive records, experiment station documents at the National Archives of the Alaska Region in Anchorage, annual reports of the experiment station, Fairbanks newspapers, and the Congressional Record.

In production - "Like a Tree to the Soil": A History of Farming in the Tanana Valley, 1903-1940
by Josephine E. Papp and Josie A. Phillips

From Fairbanks' early beginnings the need to produce food locally inspired the many homesteaders whose names now are remembered in street and subdivision names: Ballaine, Grenac, McGrath, Yankovich, and many others. This well-illustrated book explores the histories of the farmers of Farmers Loop Road and other areas in the vicinity of Fairbanks, with chapters on the Tanana Valley Agriculture Association, dairy farmers, woodcutters, gardeners, town agriculturalists, teamsters and drovers, roadhouse proprietors, fur farmers, and others, and featuring appendices on homesteading, agricultural fairs and expositions, and local place names.