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From the New Kenai Peninsula Borough COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
From the New Kenai Peninsula Borough COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Kenai - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
From the New Kenai Peninsula Borough COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Kenai - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
From the New Kenai Peninsula Borough COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Kenai Peninsula Agriculture Initiative A land use project of the KPB Land Management Division Agriculture Trends in the Kenai Peninsula Borough More Farms Smaller Farms More
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Kenai Peninsula Agriculture Initiative
A land use project of the KPB Land Management Division
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Agriculture Trends in the Kenai Peninsula Borough
- More Farms
- Smaller Farms
- More High Tunnels
- More Market Connections
- More Product Variety & Quality
- More Interest in Food Security, Local Foods, Food Stories &
Farm Tourism
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Farming Opportunities
- Unique growing conditions = unique crop selection
- People are interested in food systems
- Land available
- Market development potentials
- Compliments existing infrastructure and economic anchors
- Compliments local values
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Farming Challenges Here
- Cost of start-up and individual risks
- Poorly defined farm system infrastructure
- Equipment, Supply, & Input availability, Costs
- Starting with a boreal forest and cold acidic soils
- Processing and storage infrastructure is lacking
- Competing with highly subsidized and low margin products
- Growing conditions vary each season- Low predictability per
crop
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The Borough has Land
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Agriculture from borough land
- How?
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Agriculture from borough land
- How?
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White Paper: Response
- KPB Ag Initiative White Paper
- Ag Groups Host Discussions
- Letters of Interest
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Food Systems; Local Product Systems
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Average farm size of the 39 producers surveyed:
0.7 7 acre res! s!
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Number of farms on the
Kenai nai Peni ninsula nsula grew
60% 60%!
Average farm size of the 39 producers surveyed:
0.7 7 acre res! s!
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39 Producers: Obstacles to Growth
- Cold storage
- Labor costs
- Transportation costs
- Access to capital
- On-farm infrastructure
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39 Producers: Direct to Consumers
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Thank You
KPB Land Management Homer Soil & Water Conservation District (907) 714-2205 (907) 235-8177 x5 lmweb@kpb.us info@homerswcd.org
www.kpb.us/land www.homerswcd.org