Aaron McLean recently spent a day at street level in Shanghai with Jun Gong from The Instagram account @830amshanghai, eating at her favourite spots across the city.
May 2017
for the love of bees – biking bee
Last weekend ‘for the love of bees’, a city bee collaboration / social sculpture in Auckland put into action their mission to turn Auckland into “a biologically robust ecosystem” and the safest city in the world for bees. Full article “for the love of bees – biking bee”
BREAKBREAD @ MY FRIEND’S HOUSE
BREAKBREAD @ MY FRIEND’S HOUSE
Stone Soup collaborated with Breakbread to produce this video of their event with Gemmayze St where owner Samir Allen writes a letter to his restaurant to present to his guests before he and his staff sit to share a feast with them.
Shot, directed and edited by;
Marcus Ringrose of playstudio.co.nz & Aaron McLean aaronmclean.com
Biddy Fraser-Davies, my favourite ‘late developing geriatric peasant’.
By Calum Hodgson, cheesemonger at Sabato, otherwise known as ‘The Curd Nerd’
At the beginning of September 2016, Biddy made the decision that she would no longer make heat treated cheese. Her advancing years and clapped out shoulders meant lifting heavy pans of milk into bigger pans of boiling water and then out again into iced water to cool it down before she could begin cheesemaking was a chore she could do without. Full article “Biddy Fraser-Davies, my favourite ‘late developing geriatric peasant’.”
Hiakai ft. The Food Farm
Monique Fiso recently held the first of her Hiakai Bell tent pop-ups on The Food Farm – the organic permaculture CSA of the Clifford family in Waipara, North Canturbury.