Made in Alaska

Basically Basil is a small Fairbanks greenhouse that has grown plant starts for more than 20 years: herbs, vegetables, annual flowers and perennials suited to Interior Alaska gardens.

Plants are sold at the Tanana Valley Farmers Market.

Saxifrage Leather makes handmade leather goods in Alaska: belts, bracelets, keyfobs and leather-accented greeting cards. Many pieces are stamped with Alaska place names.

Its work is sold online and at shops in Anchorage.

Miles of Alaska is the one-man shop of Miles Martin in Nenana, making art and jewelry from fossil mammoth ivory, cut stones and other materials from the land since 1973. He also makes custom knives and does his own metal casting.

He sells raw materials to other artisans, such as mammoth ivory for knife handles, stones and wood, and has written a series of books.

Pamela Sue is a nature-inspired artist working from her studio in North Pole, Alaska. She hand-prints woodcut and relief block prints from blocks she carves herself, and paints watercolors and miniature botanical art. Her designs also appear on greeting cards, cotton tote bags, pillows and hand-painted Alaskan art tiles.

She also sells Alaska gifts, including porcupine quill earrings handcrafted in Alaska, and vintage-style Santa letters from North Pole each holiday season. Her work is sold through her online shop and at Alaska events, hotels and lodges.

Alaskan Brewing Co. has brewed beer in Juneau since 1986, when founders Marcy and Geoff Larson opened the first brewery in Juneau since Prohibition. It is Alaska's oldest continuously operating brewery.

Its beers include the flagship Alaskan Amber. The company also makes hard seltzers and canned cocktails.

Alaska Wild Berry Products has made chocolates and candy in Alaska since 1946, and has grown into the state's largest candy maker. Its Anchorage store and factory has candy kitchens visitors can watch and a chocolate waterfall.

Besides chocolates and candies, it sells wild berry jams and jellies, smoked salmon, reindeer sausage and gift baskets.

Sweet Darlings is a candy shop in downtown Seward that makes its own chocolates, fudge, taffy, gelato and candy.

Moosetard makes gourmet coarse-ground mustards in Fairbanks, packaged by hand. Its other brands include Lead Dog BBQ sauces and rubs, Bearinade marinades, Denali Sp'ice blends and Alaska Frost flavored sugars.

Kahiltna Birchworks has made wild-harvested birch syrup in Talkeetna since 1990. It takes 110 gallons or more of birch sap to make one gallon of syrup, and its syrups are used in restaurants around the country.

Besides several grades of birch syrup, it makes birch caramels, brittle and caramel sauce, wild berry jams and syrups, and chaga tea, and sells tapping supplies.

Sarah's Alaska Honey is a small family-run Alaska beekeeping business. It sells its own honey, including fireweed honey, and supplies Alaska beekeepers with package bees, beekeeping equipment and classes.

The business does not use pesticides, chemicals or antibiotics on its bees or equipment.

Delta Meat and Sausage Co. raises Galloway-cross beef and Berkshire-cross pork on its farm in Delta Junction and processes it in its own USDA-inspected plant, established in 1997. It makes sausages and sells from a small retail store.

It also processes beef, pork, bison, elk, reindeer and yak for other Alaska farms, and game for hunters.

Indian Valley Meats processes game and exotic meats and fish in Indian, Alaska, south of Anchorage on Turnagain Arm. Established in 1976, it describes itself as one of the largest processors of game meat in North America.

Its own products include reindeer, elk, venison and buffalo sausages and specialty meats, smoked fish, canned products and shelf-stable items.

Alaska Chip Company makes all-natural potato chips in Anchorage from potatoes grown in Palmer, Alaska. The company was founded in 2003 on the idea of making a potato chip in Alaska from Alaska-grown potatoes.

Its lines include the original Alaska Chip and the award-winning Grizzly Chip, along with popcorn.

Wild Alaska Smoked Salmon smokes wild-caught fish from the Gulf of Alaska in Kodiak. Its products include smoked king, sockeye, pink and coho salmon, smoked black cod and halibut, lox and salmon caviar.

It sells sampler gift packs and a gourmet club subscription.

Alaska Log Furnishings builds custom heirloom log furniture in Wasilla from Alaskan black spruce and beetle-kill white spruce.

The line covers beds and headboards, dressers and storage, tables and dining sets, seating and benches, railings, interiors and other custom woodwork. Pieces are delivered along Alaska's road system, from Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valley to the Kenai Peninsula, Talkeetna and Fairbanks.

Alaska Wooden Toys makes small wooden toys and novelties in its Juneau wood shop: moose, bears, rockfish, ducks, planes and more.

Each piece is cut from hardwoods and local Alaska woods, left in natural wood colors and finished with a hand-drawn face.

The Gifted Basket in Anchorage has made gift baskets for more than 25 years. Owner and designer Kimberly Walters builds Alaska baskets around local favorites like smoked salmon, wild berry jams, artisan snacks and gourmet treats, and customers can design their own.

It is a retailer: baskets combine Alaska products with gifts sourced elsewhere. Local delivery covers Anchorage, Eagle River and Chugiak.

Lasertech Alaska has made custom awards, signs and engraved goods in Anchorage since 1983. Its work includes laser engraving and cutting, sand carving, large-format CNC routing and 3D carving, decals, banners and vinyl lettering.

It also engraves drinkware and stocks Alaska awards and promotional products.

Alaska Rug Company hand-knots rugs, doormats, bowls, baskets, trivets, coasters and other nautical decor from new rope and from fishing line and rope reclaimed from Alaska's commercial fishing grounds. It also makes custom signs from local driftwood.

Owners Jen Luton and Ryan Burnard started the business on Kodiak Island and moved it to Sterling, on the Kenai Peninsula, in 2023.

Zen Bathworks handcrafts Japanese-style wooden soaking tubs (ofuro) and cedar hot tubs in Haines, Alaska, along with bath fixtures and accessories.

Every tub is built in-house in Haines by the company's woodworkers and shipped to customers across the country.

Mark Knapp makes custom fixed-blade and folding knives in Fairbanks, including his patented 1911 Combat Survivor Bowie. He won his episode of History Channel's Forged in Fire in 2017.

His handles use distinctly Alaskan materials such as mammoth and walrus ivory, Dall sheep horn, moose antler and musk ox horn.

The Ulu Factory makes ulu knives, the traditional Inupiat all-purpose knife, at its Anchorage factory, where blades are made, handles fitted and knives packed. Handles come in birch, walnut and antler, and the ulus are sold alone or with a matching cutting bowl.

Visitors can tour the factory to watch blades being made and learn how to use and sharpen an ulu. The gift shop also carries other Alaska-made gifts.

George Albert of Ruby, on the Yukon River, builds traditional Athabascan snowshoes by hand, with birch frames filled with moose or caribou babiche or nylon. He was named an Athabascan Living Cultural Treasure in 2010.

He makes full-size snowshoes and miniature wall pieces, ordered by phone or mail.

Alaska Fur Exchange is an Anchorage store specializing in Native Alaskan and Alaska-made crafts. It carries one of the state's largest selections of Eskimo dolls, made by Yup'ik and Inupiaq doll makers from Bristol Bay, Togiak and Northern Alaska.

The shop also sells fur products, carvings, jewelry, baskets, knives and bone work. It is a retailer of work by Alaska artists rather than a maker itself.

Fish Creek Company is a shop on historic Creek Street in Ketchikan selling Alaska-made and Northwest Coast art. It carries totem poles, masks, carvings, ivory jewelry, ulu knives, steel art and Alaska salmon.

Featured artists include Israel Shotridge and Andy Everson. It is a retailer of work by Alaska and Northwest Coast artists rather than a maker itself.

Once in a Blue Moose is a family business, dating to 1969, with Alaska gift stores in Anchorage, Talkeetna and Seward. It carries Made in Alaska products and supports Alaska artists whenever possible.

The stores and online shop sell apparel, jewelry, home decor, food, books and kitchen items. It is a retailer rather than a maker.

Sitka Rose Gallery on Lincoln Street in Sitka shows and sells work by more than 100 Alaskan and Alaska Native artists, from oil paintings and totemic carvings to bronze sculpture and jewelry.

It is a gallery and retailer of Alaska-made art rather than a maker itself.

Revelate Designs makes bikepacking bags: frame bags, handlebar and cockpit bags, seat bags and cargo systems. Eric Parsons started the company in 2007, sewing frame bags in a basement in Anchorage.

Headquarters only: the Anchorage workshop designs, tests and prototypes every product. About half of the sewn line is made by a partner in Seattle, Washington, and welded and some other bags are made in Asia.