Photos: Free pickings at Grow Palmer urban garden

Updated: August 5, 2017 Published: August 5, 2017

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Ellen Bruckner, 3, chomps on celery while visiting the Grow Palmer community garden with sister Tessa, 6, and mom Froukje Bruckner on Thursday, August 3, 2017, near the Palmer Depot. The Grow Palmer volunteer urban agriculture group, with approval from the city, has created a series of crop-filled planters dubbed the “edible rail trail” offering free produce as it ripens along the old railroad tracks. Additional plots and planters are scattered around town, offering crops ranging from cabbage to kale to corn. Herbs, edible flowers and raspberries are also in the mix. “This is fantastic,” said Bruckner as her daughters eagerly explored the planters. (Erik Hill / Alaska Dispatch News)

The Grow Palmer volunteer urban agriculture group, with approval from the city, has created a series of crop-filled planters dubbed the "edible rail trail" offering free produce as it ripens adjacent to the old railroad tracks.

Additional plots and planters are scattered around town, offering crops ranging from cabbage to kale to corn. Herbs, edible flowers and raspberries are also in the mix.

"This is fantastic," Froukje Bruckner said as her two daughters eagerly explored the planters during a recent visit. The project began elsewhere in 2014 but found a new home near the Palmer Depot this summer.

Erik Hill

Erik Hill was a longtime photographer for Alaska Dispatch News, and before that, the Anchorage Daily News.