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tropical plants as migrants

Have you ever wondered how tropical plants landed in the hands of the people of the West and the displays of European glasshouses?

In 1652 the Dutch East India Company laid out a garden at the Cape to grow food for its ships. Over the next...

2 months ago
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they banned shea nuts & the women paid for it

For the past few months I’ve been running a series on Instagram called Shea School: short, 45 to 90 second facts on the shea industry, from the tree to the harvest to the jar on our shelves. There’s one month until naa launches and there is...

2 months ago
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women's gold, shea butter

It had to be the perfect alignment of the birth of a shea butter brand, naa, a butter that is churned by women from start to finish, while I was in grief.

It had to be that as I was building this brand I was also building myself. Because w...

3 months ago
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50,000 hands

This piece traces Centella asiatica through its Malagasy name, Talapetraka, and the 50,000 women who harvest it by hand each season along the riversides and rice fields of Madagascar. Before it became a global skincare trend, it was and sti...

5 months ago
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the fruit that falls on its own time

This piece traces the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) through ceremony, landscape, and extraction. From the First Fruits festivals of the Zulu and Tsonga, to the women who crack the kernel and press the oil by hand each harvest season, the...

6 months ago
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