Jenna and Sonora check on their cabbages.
After putting her two-year-old daughter, Sonora, to bed, Jenna Wilson-Ashby picks green beans in one of her two greenhouses on a recent evening in Petersburg. It's her eighth year tending this garden, and she understands the ups and downs involved with growing food in Southeast Alaska.
This year has proven to be a challenging growing season thanks to the continuous rain and cool temperatures throughout May and June. "That's okay, we'll try again next year," she says, describing how only 40 of her 600 carrot seeds germinated this season.
When Wilson-Ashby and her husband Alex Rodriguez-Smith bo...
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