From The Tundra Drums, Wednesday, February 17, 2010:
What might be the only commercial farm in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta will expand this summer, despite early worries that the new potato field near the airport would increase the threat of bird strikes.
To prepare the field for farming, Bethel resident Tim Meyers scraped away two acres of frozen tundra near the airport on state-owned land last summer, tilling the earth underneath.
His handiwork lies prominently near the airport, visible from the main road into town as undulating rows beneath snow.
With a combination of fish-based fertilizer (the local jail donated mounds of salmon guts last summer), and a handmade potato planter and harvester, Meyers hopes to churn out 20,000 pounds of organic spuds this summer.
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