Ag Matters: Big Dipper Ice cream Rob Brown

Dec 16, 2025 | Ag Matters

Ken Hoffmann speaks with Big Dipper Ice Cream owner, Rob Brown. Rob and Lisa Brown opened the first Big Dipper Homemade Ice Cream location in downtown Palmer in May 2021. It has expanded to three locations in the Mat-Su Valley. Rob said that he knew he wanted to run a...

Ag Matters: Dec.10, 2025 Ken Hoffman

Dec 15, 2025 | Ag Matters

Mike Chmielewski flips the microphone on Ag Matters host Ken Hoffman to talk about the Mat-Su Farm Bureau and farming microgreens. Ken Hoffman wears many hats. He started Mat-Su Microgreens in a spare bedroom in 2022. He now has three employees and a 30X30 barn filled...

Ag Matters: Max Lyons and Valentina Romanovskaia

Dec 11, 2025 | Ag Matters

Two interviews in one this week, Ken Hoffman talks to both Max Lyons from the Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute & Valentina Romanovskaia of Northern Beauty Alaska. The Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute is a community-based, non-profit organization...

Ag Matters: All Dahlia’d Up

Nov 20, 2025 | Ag Matters

Misty Vanderweele from All Dahlia’d Up visits with Ken Hoffman and talks about growing flowers in Alaska. Starting with one smushed dahlia brought home by Misty’s son, Luke. All Dahlia’d Up has grown to 2,000 dahlias and hundreds of other flowers in...