We’ve long been fans of the rustic, the old-fashioned, the handmade, and the homegrown. In fact, with Amanda writing a thesis on modern homesteaders and DIY enthusiasts, we’ve taken to calling the genre “Amandabait.” Over the last week or so, we've run into a whole batch of Amandabait stories we want to highlight for you:
In The Atlantic, the English Twitter user @herdyshepherd explains why the digital medium is perfect for sharing his life's work with the world. (The above photo, by the way, is of one of his dogs.)
The Better Backpack wants to revolutionize the way we think about consumer goods, so they designed a sustainable, “slow-designed” backpack. They’ve surpassed their Kickstarter funding goals, but you can still give them seed money until December 27.
And The American Conservative's Gracy Olmstead highlights Kinfolk, a young Portland-based magazine that wants to combine the very best of Martha Stewart-esque hospitality & entertaining with a philosophical grounding in a sense of place and community, explicitly referring to Wendell Berry. (We're especially intrigued by the Mormon connection; Brigham Young University in Hawaii?) Some may think it's overly quaint and sincere, but perhaps our generation needs to revisit the communitarian basics of how to be a human.
Have you seen any other good pieces of Amandabait — er, crunchy lifestyle news lately?
