Sustainability Journal
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.