Festivals & Events – Summer 2019
From film festivals, to global academic conferences, we’ve been taking natural farming philosophy to …
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2018 Year in Review
People form seventeen countries came through the doors of our new art and ecology center this year, and that’s not all…
Spring 2018 Updates from Final Straw
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 …
Our “World’s Slowest Restaurant” Serves Dinner… Finally
After a truly amazing six week project, we serve the dinner that the customers ordered weeks ago…
Workshop – Making Postcards with Flowers and Leaves
From an early age, Suhee enjoyed collecting leaves and flowers. It was just a small hobby she kept for herself until a few years ago…
Workshop – Painting with Soil and Plants
In each square foot of soil, there are billions of individual living beings. We asked them to lend us their color…
Art Project – “Slowest Restaurant in the World” Opens in Osaka
Few have close enough connection to anything that we see it made from scratch… we’re re-igniting that connection
REAL-time-FOOD Project Begins in Osaka, Japan!
Have you ever been upset at the slow service of a restaurant? Just wait until you visit the restaurant that Final Straw is opening in Japan…
Filming – A Week in Western Japan
This week we filmed in Osaka, Nara, and Fukuoka, and each day was full of fresh local food. In Nara, our amazing Japanese interpreter and I spent an extended weekend withYoshikazu Kawaguchi, a natural farmer who runs a free monthly farming class, including free practice farming plots for students; about 300 students were in attendance …