If you've ever been to a wine tasting, you've probably seen people swish sips of it in their mouths to evaluate the flavor. In a University of Alaska Fairbanks test kitchen, that's exactly what food ...

This summer, with Fort Lewis College alumni and a current FLC history student, seven of us canoed Birch Creek, which is one of Alaska’s wild and scenic rivers east of Fairbanks. We paddled for 6½ days ...

Dulce Ben-East (left) talks with employees including SueEllen Bontrager about testing trees for sap. Ben-East was hoping to tap trees today, but colder-than-expected temperatures mean the crew is ...

Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. Think of it as a companion to Jeff’s weekly ADN gardening columns ...

Visit a birch grove under the full moon and learn about these trees Thursday on the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ north campus. The event, sponsored by OneTree Alaska, will run from 5:30-9 p.m., ...

On a recent afternoon, middle Alaska slipped into darkness. But a few hours after the 3:17 p.m. sunset, a golden light appeared in a field cleared of trees by a farmer more than a century ago. People ...

FAIRBANKS — A glistening on the tips of the birch branches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus told Jan Dawe that it was time to tap another tree Wednesday morning. From a distance, birch ...

Sap processed into candies, syrup -- even dog biscuits. PALMER, Alaska -- Michael East rolls his slicing tool back and forth over a 50-pound slab of birch cream caramels, slowly cutting the rich pecan ...

School officials and Alaska farmers are raving about a program that’s putting substantial state money toward school meals for the first time, saying the $3 million grant has improved student diets ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican Alaska state Sen. Chris Birch, a former state House member who also served on the Fairbanks North Star Borough and Anchorage assemblies, has died, his family said in a ...

It has been about five years since the first birch trees were tapped in Alaska to produce birch syrup to sell commercially. Now, a group of Alaskans is marketing the syrup. In 1990, Marlene Cameron of ...