In Alaska’s capital, food comes by water, air or, most often, community sharing

Juneau has little arable land, a short growing season and few farmers – and deep traditions of residents and the land feeding each otherForty miles north-west of Alaska’s capital, the highway just ends. At Glacier Highway’s most northern point, the pavement turns to gravel, the gravel widens into a turnaround and the tire tracks curve back the way they came. At the far end, the woods begin, a narrow hiking trail slipping toward the southern end of Berners Bay.