About Us
Mission:
“Hunt-Fish-Gather-Grow”
Restoring our roots of ancient wisdom while reviving self-sufficiency through regenerative agriculture. To support biological and soil health by nurturing plants and animals to provide an abundance of nutrient-dense food. To empower community to re-connect to local food systems. To enable personal health and wellness through herbal medicine, food as medicine, and energy efficiency. To adopt food storage methods that maintain years of food without fossil fuel. To develop energy efficient farming methods and tool hacks as a model for others to live luxuriously with less.
About Allie
The early days
Allie spent her early years in Ohio on her parent’s farm shoveling manure, playing in the dirt, and observing her mother put-up more tomatoes than anyone could eat in a lifetime. These formative years were not easy to wash off and helped to nurture her intuitive passion for self-sufficiency. Growing up as part of a passionate outdoorsy family, responsibility and discipline came at an early age. Her commitment to athletic pursuits, combined with an incredibly positive father as role model, gave her the determination and courage to follow her dreams.
At 18 years of age, Allie migrated to Alaska to attempt a winter ascent of Mt. Marcus Baker. She found more than mountains to climb. In addition to endless epic mountains she saw the potential to build a homestead, grow food, and live off-grid. Knowing she would soon return to Alaska permanently, Allie finished up her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in sustainable agriculture, herbal medicine, alternative energy and sustainable architecture at Evergreen State College.
As an adult
Most of Allie’s adult life has been spent in the outdoors as a mountain guide, avalanche forecaster, farmer and homesteader. Allie and Jed (2000-2024) birthed, managed, and threw their hearts, souls, and lives into building and forecasting for the Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center from 2008-2025.
Settling in Chickaloon
She naturally settled in the quiet town of Chickaloon nested between the beautiful Talkeetna and Chugach Mountains, nurtured by the rapids of the Matanuska and Chickaloon Rivers, located at the end of a beaten path deep in the heart of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska.
Since purchasing land in Alaska in 2002, Allie has put her heart, soul, blood and a few tears into creating a small scale, off-grid homestead and farm. In 2010, Allie committed to farming, nutrition, making ferments, and putting up food “full time.”
Health and wellness
Having been diagnosed with celiac disease in her mid-20’s, Allie was motivated to commit to a 100% local and nutrient dense diet of wild game, farm raised meat, good local fat, ferments, root veggies, raw goat milk and eggs. She is proud of not having to rely on the grocery for more than 20 years and feels better than ever, never looking back.
Allie melds her education, strong work ethic, love for the soil and passion for herbal medicine and a nutrient-dense diet into a full-time farm-life obsession.
Onward
Chugach Farm has been in full operation since 2010, selling their goods at farmer’s markets, restaurants, CSA and CSF programs, and direct marketing through the Chugach Farm online store.
Allie and Jed divorced in 2024. She has continued to carry the torch, running the farm and homestead solo.
