Only one road reaches Juneau, Alaska's capital of about 35,000 people, so almost everything arrives by boat or plane. The city has little farmland, a short growing season and no weekly farmers' market.
Groups like Ecotrust's Salt and Soil programme, part online market and part food hub, bring in produce from regional farmers by barge, seaplane or air. But much of what people eat never passes through a shop at all.
Alaskans harvested about 46 million pounds of wild food in 2014, the state's latest full estimate, around 275 pounds per person in rural areas. Ricardo Worl of Sealaska Heritage Institute says that in south-east Alaska's villages, if one person goes hungry, so do their relatives, because everyone shares the catch.
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