Throughout the Kenai peninsula, one can find abundant natural food sources. This is due to the amount of rain (Chugach is a temperate rain forest) and relatively mild spring and summer temperatures at sea level. Kenai is in stark contrast to the land north of Fairbanks, heading up toward the Arctic Circle. Beside meat sources — mammals, fish, birds, mollusks, shellfish, etc., there are naturally occurring fruits, fungi and vegetable matter everywhere, that can be processed, or are ready to consume. They are nutritious and quite tasty. Throughout the fjords, we found a delicious plant growing on the rocky beaches. The thick leaves tasted exactly like green beans.

While there have been some bear attacks on humans, they are rarely for lack of food.

There are also many medicinal plants found in the Kenai, that have been used by the Native Athabascan people (the Kahtnuht’ana Dena’ina), and continue to be used or synthesized as medicines today.