Paris / Le Roi Soleil
When I ran my fingers over the edge of the guillotine blade, it felt quite dull. Waking up at rue Mazarine, Having café crème at Deux Magots, buying bread at Poilane, strolling the…
Passion for Pasta: Al Dente Pasta Co.
I have a great fondness for small-scale food producers with genuine enthusiasm about their products, but I like it even better when they the products are truly worthwhile and the producers manage to…
Hiphonest – Open Source Sustainable Fashion & Design Trends
With fashion week season now underway in cosmopolitan capitals globally, there is no doubt that the careful scrutiny of the latest style trends and designer collections will be the preoccupation of hipsters everywhere….
Eating-in for Healthy School Lunches
You can raise your kids on the most conscious diet of local, farm-fresh, organic food, and find that once they start school, all your efforts are instantly undercut. Unless you happen to live…
Fiddyment Farms – Pioneering Nut Farming
People have been eating pistachios for millennia. Well-known (and highly prized) in the Middle East and Southern Europe for centuries, they eventually made their way to the United States. It used to be…
Interview with Alabama Chanin’s Natalie Chanin
After spending twenty years abroad abroad, traveling, living and working as a costume designer, Natalie Chanin returned to her hometown Florence, Alabama with the intention of producing a short documentary focused on stories…
Right Brain Terrain: Alternative Motivational Posters
I started my academic career as an International Student at a South Florida Community College, which meant I spent a lot of time in various waiting rooms, waiting to speak to various counselors…
Project M: Pizza Farm
Pick a significant cause, then conceive and create a single design project that will be of lasting value in a rural community. That was the brief given to the group of nine young…
The Waterpod Project – A Self-sustaining Ecosystem on the Manhattan Waterfront
With resources on land becoming scarcer by the day, and sea levels rising, the idea that we may one day have to adapt to life on the sea may not be so far…
Music for Films
“You see, this is my life. It always will be. There’s nothing else, just us and the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark.” – from Sunset Boulevard I have…
Sonoma Sausage – Bratwurst with a Fan Base
It’s not very often that I get excited about bratwurst. It’s not bad, but as a rule it’s not the kind of food that makes me jump up and down. Of course, that…
An Outside Perspective on the American Health Care System
Healthy people are not very profitable, this fact defines the corporate health care system we have in America today. When companies are allowed, even encouraged, to profit off the unhealthiness of the people,…
November 18, 2015
Mrs. Kimberly Leonard — Dear Harmless Harvest,
Where do I begin? It's hard to choose the correct words to say THANK YOU! You...
September 1, 2015
Kelly Sims — Gwen,
I live in Durham and I see it all the time, sometimes on sale at Kroger and Harris Teeter.
Kelly...
