Final Straw – Food | Earth | HappinessYear in Review & a Look at 2020
Posted February 8, 2020
Environmental workshops, exhibitions, community gardens, green streets, and our first eco arts festival. What will 2020 bring?
A Nature Mandala in a Shopping Mall
Posted December 23, 2018
Our experiment in engaging holiday shoppers with nature offered lessons: nothing is permanent, slow down, and there’s no need to buy…
Spring 2018 Updates from Final Straw
Posted May 1, 2018
From building a “pocket farm” and an eco art lab in Japan, to film screenings in Turkey, and books in Korea, there’s much to report …
Parts of a Whole: Building a Nature Mandala
Posted April 1, 2017
It’s difficult to see in practice, how our individual voice makes up one part of a beautiful whole. The nature mandala workshop helps us experience this…
The Path to “REALtimeFOOD” in Japan
Posted September 4, 2016
A tour of food, art, ecology, and culture that brings international creatives together with local villages to explore knowledge…
That Feeling I Can’t Describe
Posted November 18, 2015
It’s something I can’t describe or explain to people, but it’s in your film…
A Nature School in Busan
Posted November 15, 2015
The leaves in these parts are finally bursting out into brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows as we head into the final leg of our Korean tour.
Flowers, Soils, Kids and Moms
Posted July 28, 2015
Our final nature art workshop in Kitakagaya is kid and mom approved…
Edinburgh Nature Mornings
Posted March 5, 2014
Once a week, every week, during working hours we’re doing the following for 4 hours…
Short Take – Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, Japan
Posted December 2, 2013
We travel to Nara, Japan, to meet Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, Japan’s foremost thinker and doer in Natural Farming.
