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More than a coffee shop: Duck Duck Coffee

Creative small business work is at the core of the value that small businesses provide to their communities

One year ago, Kat Naden bought a small storefront on the corner of 38th street and Cedar Ave and the story of Duck Duck Coffee began. That day, us neighbors were none the wiser – the empty storefront was unchanged. The creative work of running a small coffee shop was yet to be done. In…

The Water Table Project

WATER TABLE: A creek-based curriculum for the community By Ryan Seibold Water Table is an art project about water and community.  I am one of 12 artists working with Freshwater’s (freshwater.org) inaugural “Art for Water” initiative and cohort of artists in partnership with Hennepin County. This program provided resources to artists to learn about and…

I am asked to consider what this place will be like in 2040?

“Water as pure and soft as the dews of heaven, gushing from hill and valley." Minnesota Pioneer, 1849

  I am a person of mostly European descent. In 1962 my mother and father built a house in what is now the suburbs. I grew up on a gravel road amidst prairie, forests, wetlands and oak savannah. I watched and mourned as the land around us was sold, surveyors staked out the land and…