Each spring in Southeast Alaska, the Sitka spruce tip harvest happens suddenly and only lasts about a week. With the flavor's growing popularity and short harvest season, Alaska businesses have come ...

In Alaska many of us spend all spring and summer harvesting foods so we can enjoy good food and nutrition all winter. We enjoy salmon, halibut, deer, moose, shrimp, and crab. The usual. Food is a ...

Every year, between 150 and 200 Sitka spruce logs cut from Southeast Alaska forests are barged south to a small company in Concrete, Wash., where they begin their transformation into acoustic guitars ...

Across Southeast Alaska, a regional ingredient is moving out of the kitchens of seasonal foragers and onto restaurants' menus, in the form of everything from cocktails and pasta to ice cream and ...

If Joe Hitselberger had his way, he'd make only one beer at Wolf Tree Brewery. "Like Orval," he says. "They just make one beer." The beer he'd make? It's nothing like Orval, the legendary Belgian ...

It breaks my heart to see Oregon's champion Sitka spruce give up the ghost. It was inevitable, I suppose. After all, everything dies. I just wish it had died after me. The massive, 750-year-old tree ...

LAKE QUINAULT, Wash. -- In any comparison of Oregon and Washington state, it's clear that Washington has the biggest city, the most active volcano, more professional sports teams, the world's richest ...

Les has Paul focus solely on one ingredient, the Sitka spruce tree. While still at the remote fishing lodge, Les tasks Paul to focus on one ingredient, which proves to be a good thing as the team ...