Gwinn, MI I didn’t think I’d find myself at a garden glamping Airbnb / weed farm / regular farm this season, but alas, when you ride the Marquette wave, sometimes that’s where she takes you. When I arrived, a quiet garden beckoned me with bloom and mystery. Inside the tent, I found a wooden bed frame, mattress with crisp white sheets, and small tables and rocking chairs handmade by the farmers who tended the space and the land around it. On them sat a jar of flower and a comp

Hancock, MI This year I've gotten to know Melanie, my favorite herbalist, but also fellow mother, healer and friend. Someone that I feel lucky to have in my corner for health questions, life lessons, and everything in between. Through Roots Revival Herbals, Melanie makes herbal blends that are grounded (and rooted!) in old plant knowledge and in equally deep respect for the ever-changing seasons of the body. Melanie's work refreshingly steers away from the latest wellness tre

Long before biscuits were coming out of the oven, the building that now houses Bosio Biscuit Company was serving the community in other ways as the Tapiola Co-op. Today, owner Stephen Bosio gives it a new purpose–one built on scratch cooking, local food, and making the most out of everything (the ingredients, people, and ideas) that comes through its doors. Founded by Finnish immigrants in the late nineteenth century, the small, rural township of Tapiola was built on the Finn

I started food photography with an iPhone 11 taking pictures of poke bowls. My $11 lunch, about fifty hashtags, and a kitschy Instagram filter - it was the pinnacle of 2016 innocence. Fast forward ten years to this weekend, when I drove two hours and hauled thousands of dollars worth of equipment into a commercial kitchen where a private chef unveiled the dish she’d like me to photograph: a poke bowl. I had to pause and sit with that, feeling the cosmic weight of a full-circl