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Hannah Teagle begins her mornings like many gardeners in the South. She cradles a steaming coffee mug, deadheads spent blooms, and sings to her plants. But her front-yard vista looks a little different than the Appalachian foothills—it’s a straight-shot view of Alaska’s snow-cloaked Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America.
The thirty-four-year-old from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the grower and groundskeeper at Camp Denali, a storied family-owned wilderness lodge at the geographic center of six-million-acre Denali National Park and Preserve in central Alaska. Inside the greenhouse she nurtures some two dozen lettuce varieties, mustard greens, radishes, salad turnips, herbs, microgreens, and spinach. A fence surrounding raised garden beds outside deters hare and moose from munching on kale, chard, peas, carrots, rhubarb, and beans…