Red Cabin Farm // Ryan & Isobelle Mahoney
After serving a tour at what is now known as Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), U.S. Air Force veterans Ryan and Isobelle Mahoney eventually returned to Alaska. Ryan earned his Advanced Master Gardener certification and discovered that Alaska imports 95% of its food. As such, we felt called to expand from our urban hobby farm of vegetables, honeybees, and chickens to a formal “Alaska Grown” business. Thankfully, Beth and Kurt of Scenic Place Peonies entrusted us to take over their secondary “Red Cabin Farm” site and continue its reputation for exceptional flowers. As lifelong learners, we are so grateful to the...
Willow Drive Gardens // Allison
Allison Gaylord of Willow Drive Gardens started gardening at the age of 4 when a neighbor gifted her a few strawberry runners over the hedgerow. Her passion for growing veggies, fruits, and flowers has become a lifelong endeavor shared with her family and farm interns.
With 2500+ peony plants, the “garden” has become a commercial cut flower farm. Sustainability is the foundation for her practice through the use of organic inputs, cover crops, compost, water recapture and beneficial insects.
Dirt Therapy
Tour of Willow Drive Gardens
Spit Sisters // Margaret
Margaret Johnson of Spit Sisters Farm is born and bred Alaskan growing up in Anchorage with grandparents who homesteaded in Wrangell, located in Southeast Alaska. Growing up, she would come to Homer often with her dad who was in the fish business and would drive down to the Homer Spit to buy fish. When her sister, Dottie, moved to Homer, it was only time before Margaret made her way to the end of the road. She tends her peonies and berries East of Homer proper, out East End Road. Spit Sisters Farm is known for their corals which typically...
Peony Patch // Vision + Don
Vision and Don Money of Peony Patch sit on 30 acres that they built 20 years ago. Thirty acres may seems like a lot, but it is a downsize from the 120 acre homestead they once had on the Glenn Highway. They have adventure in their veins as they once lived in a converted Greyhound bus for 4 years traveling around the Lower 48, and also lived on a fishing boat in St. Petersburg in Southeast Alaska for 10 years. With under 1,000 roots in the ground they are a real mom-and-pop operation. Vision tends the field and Don keeps all the equipment running....
