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Alaska Accelerates Indoor Agriculture

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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With 700 new greenhouses, Alaska is growing its own produce as deep into winter as the sun keeps rising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.8

This is Scientific American 60-second science. I'm Emily Schweng. What comes to mind when you think of Alaska?

0:42.5

Probably snow and ice and extreme cold. But what about tomatoes? In fact, agriculture is booming in the 49th state.

0:51.3

Because in the last seven years, nearly 700 giant greenhouses have popped up there

0:56.2

thanks to a program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service.

1:03.1

One greenhouse just outside Homer, an area better known for its halibut fishing, includes a tunnel

1:09.4

packed with plants that produce fruits and

1:12.2

vegetables that you'd expect to find on a dinner table closer to Mexico.

1:16.3

Look at all those tomatoes back there.

1:17.8

This is like the salsa tunnel.

1:19.6

It is.

1:20.4

It is.

1:20.7

Come walk inside from it.

1:21.9

Okay.

1:22.8

Farmer Donorey Faulkner.

1:24.7

She guides me through rows of wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling greenery.

1:28.9

Yeah, this is the nightshades. So all things nightshade, eggplants and peppers and tomatoes and tomotelios.

1:37.3

And that's her husband, Don McNamara. With help from the sun, the inside of the tunnel becomes a region with what's called a good hardiness zone,

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