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APU Kellogg Campus

Spring Creek Farm
Palmer, AK
~Center for the Study of Nature and Sustainable Living~

About the Farm

In 1948 a woman, named Louise Kellogg, made her way north to Alaska to try her hand at farming. However, no one was willing to sell land to a woman, especially one with no farming experience. So Louise bought an unfinished farm of 240 acres from Bernice J. Lossing. She named it Spring Creek Farm.

As other farms failed, or farmers chose to leave Alaska, Louise bought up the land. Spring Creek Farm is now 700 acres. In June of 1973, Louise placed her farm in a trust to benefit Alaska Methodist University (now Alaska Pacific University) where she had served on the board of Trustees for many years. Louise Kellogg died in 2001, and Alaska Pacific University honors her by cherishing the opportunity she has given our students.

In pursuit of the vision she shared, the Spring Creek Farm at the Kellogg Campus of APU is being developed today as an environmental learning center whose mission is to serve as an innovative education center for the Alaska Pacific University and Matanuska Susitna communities: for the study of nature; for the understanding, demonstration and advancement of place-based learning and sustainable ecological practices; and for training educators and others to meet community needs.

The objectives of the Spring Creek Farm include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Offering through Alaska Pacific University a Master's of Science in Outdoor Environmental Education.
• Serving as the site of the Kellogg Nature Center offering environmental education programs taught by graduate students in the MSOEE program to local school groups and the public.
• Serving the APU community as the MatSu campus for retreats, field courses, senior projects, thesis work, and ongoing research.
• Serving as a demonstration site for alternative energy and sustainable design.
• Conducting Summer Leadership Institutes.
• Offering community education garden plots, demonstration organic gardening, and training and assistance in family-scale sustainable agriculture.
• Hosting community education events that integrate the arts, humanities and sciences.

For more information or to bring a group out contact:
Steve Rubinstein
Instructor of Outdoor Studies
Director, Master of Science in Outdoor Environmental Education
907-746-2700
srubinstein@alaskapacific.edu

This website is a product of Active Learning. Content by Laura Willoughby.