The Alaska State Fair held annually in Palmer, 42 miles northeast of Anchorage, is not your regular agricultural show. Here farmers from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley routinely display vegetables and produces of gargantuan sizes ( a 138-pound cabbage, 65-pound cantaloupe and 35-pound broccoli )are just a few of the monsters that have sprung forth from Alaska’s soil in recent years.
