The AVI is expanding its on-line courses in 2025 with the “The Amazing Ag-in-a-Box Online Classroom” that specifically addresses the needs in rural Alaska and that “. . . such benefits could include helping to meet food demands, making fresh foods more available, lowering overall food costs and reducing food miles, improving health, reducing imports and outside dependencies, creating jobs and revenue, fostering partnerships within and among communities, and moving Alaska towards greater resilience and self-sufficiency.”