Jo’s Table Alaska

About Jo’s Table Alaska

Agriculture in Interior Alaska? Yes, Interior Alaska is a place that encourages many people to start an agricultural enterprise. Farming Produce, Foraging Mushrooms, Keeping Bees, Raising Chickens; it’s all here. It’s the passion of these individuals that is changing the landscape of Interior Alaska. It’s their vision, their stories and I bring these visionaries and their stories to you. Join us for fun conversations, surprising disclosures, challenges, the trials, the joys and disappointments and the community support all surrounding this basic ingredient of life, FOOD.

Publisher

Jo Heckman

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jun 2023

Latest episode

11 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

31 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Jul 2026

   Stone Soup Community Garden, growing food to share

   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 grows food to feed people who lack fresh food and also shares the food with seniors in the community.

2. 

   7 Jun 2026

   The Folk School, What is that?

   The Folk School is an incredible Fairbanks institution, full of really friendly, talented people from a broad range of backgrounds, They have been around for over 25 years! It’s a non-profit collective that teaches lots of arts, traditional crafts, outdoor skills of all kinds, building and crafting skills such as carpentry, blacksmithing, tool maintenance, etc. A place like a folk school provides a venue to share what you know and pass lifetimes of knowledge through generations.

3. 

   11 Apr 2026

   Geothermal Gold, -35F Tea farm in interior Alaska

   Does tea really grow anywhere other than India and China? Well, it can! even when its cold, dark and temeratures are -35 to -50 degrees fahrenheit.  It can grow in Faiurbanks Alaska and quite successfully. Meet Jenny Tse, owner of Sipping Streams Tea Company in interior Alaska.  Her company is the only tea manufacturing company in Alaska, she has the only farthest north tea farm in the world, and of course now has successfully grown tea in Alaska using geothermal environment in high tunnels.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 15 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

6

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60