Every human stomach has a story and if we sent an archeology team to yours, excavators might discover particles that signify a relationship to nature, a connection to environment’s history, culture, and economy. Or you could simply bring food remnants known as table scraps (organic matter) to Dragon Heart Farm where Tyler Russell and Brooks Thomas will talk story.

Way out in the Big Island Hawai’i countryside, on a rural Kohala sidewalk in Hawi, I laugh a soft chuckle, maybe even mumble a word or two out loud, a familiar refrain for country bumpkins, lost again. I missed the sign ten feet back or so, stumbling right by Roots Alchemy Café. After a clumsy u-turn…