The main challenge with farming in this part of Alaska, Brad told me recently, is that craters often open up in fields, and some are the size of Volkswagen Beetles. Sturdy cabbages and carrots thrive in the ground, while fussier tomatoes and cucumbers flourish in greenhouses. In the summer, however, the sun shines for twenty-one hours a day and the weather resembles San Francisco’s. It routinely experiences winter temperatures below minus ten degrees Fahrenheit. “They were, like, ‘You can grow things in Alaska?’ ” Their new home, not far from where Christine grew up, was as far north as Reykjavík, Iceland, and receives about sixty inches of snow each year. “People thought we were crazy,” Brad said. Pierre and his wife, Christine, moved from California to Fairbanks, Alaska, to work as farmers.
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