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Highlighting Steller Botanical Health

June 3, 2021 COVID-19 Rural Success Story
In Gustavus, Alaska you can get farm-fresh cabbage, local fermented and aged berries, apple cider vinegar, a custom herbal formula tailored to your specific body and ailment, and bodywork therapy all in one place! Small

Highlighting Twisted Root Market

March 31, 2021 Rural Success Story
Opening in 2018 as a specialty marketplace for difficult-to-find food and goods, Twisted Root Market owner and founder, Sierra Roland, centered the store on her experience as a health coach and nutritionist. With the goal

Highlighting Wares by Maegan

March 27, 2021 Fairbanks Success Story
Wares by Maegan: Intentional Art for Your Space Wares By Maegan is a home-based macramé and craft business owned by Maegan and Steven Lundy in Fairbanks, Alaska. Maegan has created her own niche by bringing

Highlighting Wares by Maegan

March 24, 2021 Fairbanks Success Story
Wares By Maegan is a home-based macramé and craft business owned by Maegan and Steven Lundy in Fairbanks, Alaska. Maegan has created her own niche by bringing her love for the Alaskan wilderness to her

Highlighting Surreel Saltwaters

March 4, 2021 Rural Success Story
Surreel Saltwaters: For All Your Halibut and Salmon Adventures Hope and Charlie Upicksoun and their daughter Avilu (their 10-year-old exuberant little captain) are experienced Alaskan Native deep-sea fishing guides out of Valdez. Avilu is a seasoned 3rd-year deckhand

Have Your Aurora and Eat It Too

March 1, 2021 Anchorage Success Story
Traffic in Los Angeles was too much for Jae Shim and his wife Ingrid, a trained chocolatier and pastry chef who worked in high-end hotels in Beverly Hills. A typical hotel pastry kitchen, Jae says,

Highlighting Three Wolves Den in Hoonah

February 25, 2021 COVID-19 Rural Success Story
The impact of the coronavirus has been felt on every level across the state this year. Coupled with facing business development challenges due to the rurality of the community of Hoonah located on Chichagof Island,

SubZero Heats Up

February 22, 2021 Anchorage Mat-Su Success Story
Perhaps it makes sense that a North Slope worker might have some thoughts about freeze drying. That was certainly the case for Monica Peck. When she’s home in Palmer instead of expediting up north, she

Highlighting Always Be Swooping

February 16, 2021 Anchorage Success Story
Always Be Swooping: Wear Boldly & Drink Wisely Bras, bitters, and bodysuits; at first an unlikely trio, but in actuality, a flawless combination. Always Be Swooping is committed to creating unique, small-batch, and Alaskan items

Waffles First… and Next the World

February 15, 2021 Anchorage Success Story
Derrick Green of Waffles and Whatnot doesn’t think small. “At some point I said my mission statement was to go to war with the industrial food complex for the health of the country.” His mission

Highlighting Passages Alaska

January 27, 2021 Rural Success Story
Klawock, Alaska is home to Passages Alaska, an adventure and wilderness-based therapy program for adults that launched in the spring of 2020. Owner and Clinical Director Sean Tomkinson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who

Highlighting Marketing 49, LLC

January 12, 2021 Rural Success Story
Melissa Schoenwether is the creative mind behind Marketing 49, LLC in Kodiak, AK. Implementing everything she has learned and applied over the last twelve years allows Schoenwether to add a depth of experience to her

The BuyAlaska Directory is here!

January 11, 2021 Anchorage BuyAlaska Fairbanks Juneau Kenai Peninsula Ketchikan Mat-Su Rural Success Story
You asked we listened! Our BuyAlaska program has launched a brand new statewide directory, and it’s as easy as 1-2-3 to sign up your business! Visit www.BuyAlaska.com Sign up as a BuyAlaska Member for free

Highlighting Elevate Wellness Center

December 16, 2020 COVID-19 Fairbanks Success Story
Elevate Wellness Center is the first in Fairbanks to introduce multiple innovative options in one space. Services include IV nutrition, Prolon cellular reset, float, heat, and light therapies, and mediation and coaching support that can

Highlighting Interior Trails

December 9, 2020 COVID-19 Rural Success Story
After 13 seasons with federal trail crews in Montana and Alaska, Gabe Travis and Christine Byl were ready to leave federal employment in 2008 and start their own small business offering trail-related services to the

Highlighting Little Alaskan

November 25, 2020 Kenai Peninsula Success Story
The Little Alaskan boutique is family-owned and operated in Kenai, Alaska. Founded on the idea that children’s clothing can be trendy, comfortable, and affordable, Little Alaskan strives for the intentional curation of unique toys, coveted

Eat the Seasons: Wild Scoops whips up local flavor

November 16, 2020 Anchorage COVID-19 Success Story
“If I don’t do it, somebody else will.” Sometimes the thought of a missed opportunity is enough to push something from idea to reality. Elissa Brown, co-owner with Chris Pike of Wild Scoops in Anchorage,

Highlighting Out to Sea Expedition Co.

November 12, 2020 Ketchikan Success Story
Let’s go Out to Sea Founded in 2019 by Ketchikan locals Eric Lunde and Delaney Murphy, Out to Sea Expedition Company’s mission is to explore our world with an adventurous spirit in a sustainable way.

Highlighting Kicksled Alaska

October 28, 2020 Anchorage Success Story
Inspired by the desire to get outdoors during the wintertime with their baby and needing a mode of outdoor-transportation smoother than their stroller, Valerie and Brennan Walsh turned to their used kicksled. Kicksledding provides great

Highlighting Salmon River Sportfishing

October 21, 2020 Rural Success Story
Salmon River Sportfishing Natalie Vaz owns the only freshwater fishing guide service in Gustavus, Alaska, the “gateway” to Glacier Bay National Park. In addition, to fly fishing and spin fishing, she also guides river kayaking,
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