Sustainability Journal

  • A Pile of Leaves on Fire

    A Pile of Leaves on Fire

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Fall is highly symbolic, I think. And also highly charged in a human behavior sort of way. For me, fall is a mixed bag of colorful, rotting leaves. And maybe the pile of leaves is on fire. It seems highly...

  • Wellness Pie

    Wellness Pie

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    What is wellness? Everything and its mom have their own definitions. Social media will tell you through framed, little boxes with words inside, or pictures of bodies in mirrors, that wellness is a cacophony of contradictory things. I looked up...

  • Tea, If You Want To

    Tea, If You Want To

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Our last post explored tea’s origins in China. Today, we follow the Tea Road out to Japan and Russia, and its eventual reach to Europe and North America in the modern age. Tea cultures around the world all have their...

  • Cha Wenhua

    Cha Wenhua

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    This morning I set out to write a blog post on tea cultures around the world. Tea is deeply symbolic and informs and reflects various aspects of life among many cultures - specifically those rare-to-modern-day slow and intentional aspects. But...

  • Timeless Muses & Sustainable Gift Baskets

    Timeless Muses & Sustainable Gift Baskets

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    It’s time to roll out a waggish Juniper Station sustainable gift guide. Gift basket edit. I created six baskets ranging in price from $175 to $275. Of course, there’s room for budget adjustments and editing - these eco-chic bundles are...

  • Wild Old Tea: Musings on Pu’erh

    Wild Old Tea: Musings on Pu’erh

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    These are The Wild Old Trees, some said to be standing for thousands of years, and miraculously, still producing high yields of precious pu’erh tea.