With a commitment to direct-sourcing beans, Natalie ensures that the farmers who grow her coffee are paid a fair price for their product. Her roasting facility is wide-open to the patrons at her cafe, so they can watch the skill and craft it takes to ensure perfectly roasted beans.
Read MoreKelp has been cultivated for centuries in Asia and is widely consumed, but up until recently it hadn't really been cultivated in the States. Most of the seaweed we eat here in the U.S. is imported and has been dehydrated, re-hydrated, treated with dyes ... but there is a growing number of kelp farms on American coasts and when I started reading up on Atlantic Sea Farms, I knew that I wanted to tell their story.
Read MoreI have a cabin out in the Ozarks and one evening, I was in the mood for a cocktail, so I opened up a bottle of Iconic's Prickly Pear Sour mix that I had squirreled away in my suitcase after our Phoenix Meet the Makers event. I happened to have a bottle of Missouri-made Pinckney Bend barrel-aged gin and a lime on hand, so I made the Pricky Rickey recipe that's right there on the bottle.
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