The Muskox farm is a non-profit farm outside Palmer about 45 minutes from Anchorage, specialized in the animal that was reintroduced to Alaska in the 1930s.

The muskox, one of the Arctic’s oldest living species, once a contemporary of the wooly mammoth and saber-toothed tiger. It is a hoofed animal of the family Bovidae. It is noted by its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by males during the seasonal rut, from which its name derives.

It is closely related to sheep and goats. In modern times, muskoxen were restricted to the Arctic areas of Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska. The Alaska population was wiped out in the late 19th or early 20th century. However, muskoxen were reintroduced to Alaska in the early 30s. It has also been reintroduced in other parts of Eurasia within the artic circle.

In the early 1950s, anthropologist John Jerome Teal Jr. started raising a geographically appropriate animal in order to bring an economic opportunity to Alaskans.