Inside a hoop house at Spruce Island Farm. (Photo by: Daniel Rich Sr/Facebook) Mitch Borden/KMXT The city of Ouzinkie started working on its community farm about three years ago. This summer was the first time the farm was fully operational. On the old Ouzinkie airstrip sits Spruce Island Farm with its two large hoop houses and 30 Rhode Island Red …
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A White Chinese Goose similar to the one in Ouzinkie. Tracie Hall / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT Island communities are growing their own produce and raising their own poultry as part of an ongoing hoop house project, and each village has its unique innovations to add in. Like beekeeping and guard geese. The participating communities of Larsen Bay, Old Harbor, Ouzinkie …
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