Fireside Lecture on the soils of Southeast Alaska

Guests: Samia Savell, Resource Conservationist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Program.
Heavy rain. Limited sunlight. Shallow and sandy soils. The list of things that makes it tough to grow plants in Southeast Alaska is long. Samia Savelle, with the  USDA’s Resource Conservation Services program, talks about ways to work around these challenges.

 

Air date: Friday, March 4, 2022

• Full show: A Unique Boot-Ique at the Juneau Artists Gallery. Soil, the backbone Southeast Alaska gardening. History of the Fireside Lecture series at Mendenhall Glacier. 
• Part 1: Juneau artists turn boots into art.
• Part 2: Fireside memories from the Mendenhall Visitor Center.