Meet Peter Miller, he is the Stone Soup Community Garden Manager. He oversees the most unique community garden in interior Alaska, where the garden is meant for growing food to serve those who are food insecure, he also created an eating garden that is open to anyone who wants to stop by and grab some fresh produce. No questions asked.
Built by volunteers in 2015, and with donations of land, plants, and water, the Stone Soup Garden grows around 2-thousand pounds of food for the city’s most at-risk.
The food harvested from Stone Soup Garden goes to the Bread Line, which is a non-profit that runs a café serving free nutritious breakfasts and sack lunches. Some of the food also goes to the elderly and those with disabilities.
The Stone Soup Community Garden is a project to provide the best possible fresh & local food to people experiencing food insecurity in downtown Fairbanks.
The garden’s first season, in 2015, harvested over 500 pounds of produce. The following year, harvest more than tripled! Ever since, the Stone Soup Community Garden has been growing & changing to meet needs of the community and fulfilling its anti-hunger mission. The garden now dedicates beds to an “eating garden” so hungry people can pick produce right at the source.
This is a gem, an oasis right downtown Fairbanks, Alaska. Check it out, you may be inspired to help tend to the garden, donate time or money or just grab a handful of snap peas.