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Urban Rustic [PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn]

Urban Rustic [PSFK Snapshot Brooklyn]

Urban Rustic
Locavore grocery shopping has come to Williamsburg with Urban Rustic, a food enthusiast’s paradise, stocked only with products sourced from farmers, butchers, cheese makers and other suppliers within a 100-mile radius. Electricity comes from wind power and handwritten tags give info on the origin of each item, which the owners meticulously source for specific reasons (and can tell you exactly why if you ask). Photos on the wall pay homage to the felled trees that were sacrificed to make the earthy floors (the owners were even part of the lumbering process). There’s a juice and- coffee bar in the [...]

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Sharing Land: A Growing Revolution

Sharing Land: A Growing Revolution

Two UK based websites, Landshare and LandFit (temporarily on hiatus), are hoping to expand the concept in a radical way by putting would-be gardeners who lack the space in contact with those that would like to see their underutilized property put to good use. Time and again we’ve seen the internet’s powerful social networking capabilities bring people together in interesting ways to build communities and create change, and like most successful endeavors this idea is starting small, connecting individuals in their own neighborhoods and backyards. As we begin to understand the impact of large scale farming on our health and [...]

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