Dan and Chris Fischer are a father/son pair who scavenge for rocks and driftwood along the beaches of Homer, Alaska in order to create homemade lamps. While simple in materials, their Alaska Beach Stone Lamps are stunning works of art.

Natasha Price is a crafty person. From knit hats to family dinners, homemade is kind of her thing. One reason for the DIY attitude according to Price is because living in Alaska is expensive enough without going out to eat every night. So after realizing that her family's monthly grocery bill was topping $600, she went on a quest to feed her family on $75 a week.

Iñupiaq artist Ross Schaeffer spent most of his life hunting, trapping, and fishing around Kotzebue, Alaska. He started creating artwork and carvings that blend traditional and modern techniques. Using age-old materials such as woolly mammoth bone, Ross works on carvings inspired by his culture and natural environment and encourages young folks to try artwork.

Until she moved to Alaska, Kathryn Moore had never fully embraced her creative side. Now, as multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and member of the popular Alaskan band Super Saturated Sugar Strings her music tells stories of life and Alaska.

For brewmaster David Boortz, brewing homemade kombucha for his friends and colleagues was just a part of everyday life. But when his barrels of kombucha began to take up too much space in his cabin near Palmer, Alaska, David knew that Alaskans were ready for a kombucha business.

People who have heard Erik Falskow play the saxophone compare him to a jazz musician on a Chicago street corner. But what shocks listeners is the fact that Erik is only 16 years old. And even more, he's only been playing for five years. In this episode of Indie Alaska, we meet Anchorage's own saxophone sensation and the local musical legends who have helped guide him through Alaska's music scene.

Terri Anne Kilborn recreates Alaska's sweeping scenery one shard of tile at a time in her mosaic studio, Arctic Mermaid. Kilborn has made it her goal to unlock the creativity in others through the medium of mosaics.

You can't talk about Alaska without mentioning hockey. Guadalupe Martinez has been playing indoor, outdoor and pond hockey for years now, thanks to the help from the Scotty Gomez Foundation.

Mikey Cuadrado has been snowboarding for more than a decade, but for the last seven years, he's fallen in love with the unique sport of splitboarding. When he couldn't fight his feelings for splitboarding any longer, he decided to leave his home in Indiana and move to Alaska to conquer the rugged mountains of the Last Frontier.

Most Americans are familiar with maple syrup, but have you ever heard of birch syrup? In Alaska where birch trees are plentiful, locals are finding unique ways to use birch sap.

The Bristol Bay Fly Fishing & Guide Academy hopes to educate, engage and inspire #BristolBay young adults to become local leaders in river stewardship and prepare them for jobs based on healthy #fish in their home rivers.

George Peck began riding unicycles around Seward, Alaska in the 80s. Eventually moving on to riding the ultimate wheel - a unicycle with no seat - on mountains and beaches, George pioneered the sport of "rough-terrain unicycling" and began a family tradition carried on by his children, Kris, and Katie Peck.

Beau Gibb and Cambria Houtte shared similar dreams of building a home in Alaska, but they wanted to do it using energy-efficient principles. The duo embarked on a three-year journey designing and constructing their passive solar home in Palmer, Alaska. During that time, they made new discoveries about how to effectively construct a true passive solar home in the unique landscapes of the Matanuska

Dall Sheep played an important role in the creation of Denali National Park. That doesn't necessarily mean they're always easy to find. Each year, the National Park Service rangers conduct ground-based and aerial surveys to identify #dallsheep population trends in an effort to ensure effective management within the National Park.

Different rap styles can vary from the West Coast to the East Coast, to down South; and in Anchorage, Alaska, rappers like Tayy Tarantino are creating their own unique sound. TayyTarantino started singing in the church choir at the age of five. He now regularly opens for big acts coming through Alaska and is working on putting Alaska on the map in the world of hip-hop.

What does it take to keep bees alive in the last frontier? Strong genetics. Keith Malone and Nathan Broumley are going back to the basics with beekeeping. Through genetic tweaks and all-natural methods, they have learned to keep their hives happy and healthy year-round.

Indie Alaska visited the SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska where they're caring for Tyonek, the first rehabilitated beluga calf from the Cook Inlet. He was found in September 2017, stranded on a beach with no other beluga whales in sight. They brought him to the SeaLifeCenter where he has been receiving 24/7 care ever since. Cook Inlet belugas are one of eight endangered species that NOAA Fisher

Even though Spanish is widely spoken in Alaska, coming from a Spanish-speaking country is not as easy as it seems. At least it wasn't for Kimberly Mejía Gúzman and her family, who moved from Guatemala to Anchorage. Driven by the hope for new and better opportunities, Kimberly's family soon discovered how difficult it is to adapt to a new lifestyle far from home.

Roger Firedodger and his Alaska Fire Circus can be found all over #Anchorage spinning, #juggling and dancing with fire. Through performance art, #RogerFiredodger has found a family, self-confidence and possibly even a career.

You could say that skeleton building is in his bones. Lee Post's articulated creations can be found in museums and visitor centers across Alaska and the Lower 48. Every summer, Post guides students at the Peterson Bay Field Station through a mystery bone-building project.