The Nettle Dress
Clothing that is being made this way, specifically for you, by people that know and love you, from fibres that are to be found in your own landscape, is the way clothing has been made for most of our history.
rebuilding resilient food and fiber systems
Learning to Blossom: Duckworth Farm
Dotted with ponds and brimming with wildlife, Duckworth Farm is 82 acres of secluded paradise. The entire property is open, save for a fence in the back protecting a relic Black Oak forest. “Just being here is a look back in time—at how this county would have looked 150 years ago,” explains Lorri.
Grazing At the Cutting Edge
Building off one another’s enthusiasm, the Irwins describe their model of ranching that pulls from agrarian traditions of the past and present to create diverse, resilient agricultural systems that are the engines for ecosystem restoration for our future.
Indigo in Hand at Red Twig Farm
It is in this “depth of a friendship,” and in these relationships of plant, place, and people that is what inspire Heather and Gina to share what they have learned.
Huston Textile Company: A Reintroduction into the Local Apparel Chain
Yet, while we exist in this intimate relationship with cloth, we often know surprisingly little about how it was made, where it was made, and who it was made by.
Eye of the Stockwoman
On the voyage from corporate life at Williams-Sonoma to the running of a 210 acre ranch with over 100 animals, Kelli has developed a different kind of eye along the way; the eye of the stockwoman.
Can Industrial Hemp Save Kentucky’s Small Farms?
At the birth of any industry, uncertainty abounds. So does opportunity, say Kentuckians like Joe Schroeder of Freedom Seed and Feed, who is among those growing industrial hemp and advocating for others in Appalachia to do the same.
The Stewards of Stinson
As we circle back to the house, a full picture of the guiding principles here begins to emerge. First and foremost, there is a deep commitment to preserving and enriching the land.
Harvesting Liberty: A Short Film
Harvesting Liberty is a film that captures a story of a vision made manifest, a creation process that somehow made it through the veritable tsunami-like conditions created from the aftermath of the changing of antiquated laws, and the tour de force of promises brought forth by many-a-businessmen that followed this political change.
Stonehenge Llama Ranch and Margaret Drew: Farmer, Artist, Electrician, and Lifelong Learner
It became clear to me by the end of our time together that Margaret is an educator and a caretaker, a person who is always learning new things and has the consistency to see her work through to the end.
Who Grew Our Clothes?
Unraveling the story behind the glamor and surface appeal of fast fashion is like Dorothy and her little dog toto pulling the curtain back on the man whose amplified voice is used to create the illusion of the Wizard of Oz.
Knitting by Radius
…“everything you buy, if you think about the effect on the soil, that’s the biggest impact you could ever make.”