Author: Daniel Swenson-Klatt

Walking the Green Path: Claiming Our Green Space

Growing up I lived among gardens, something I didn’t appreciate until it was gone. Now I’m trying to learn how to grow these green spaces in the neighborhood.

Walking the Green Path: Greener Paths at the Crossways

Finding ingredients that have the least impact on our environment can be difficult. It takes the time, energy, and desire to find the information needed to make the right choice.

Walking on the Green Path: On Being a Trailblazer

Whether you’re lost in the woods or trying to be one of the first restaurants in Minneapolis to pay your staff a fair wage while forgoing tips there are challenges and rewards to being a trailblazer.

Walking the Green Path: A Tunnel Along the Path

Running a restaurant at the forefront of a fair wage campaign can feel like traveling through a long dark tunnel.

Walking the Green Path: Theory and Practice

When we stopped taking tips at Butter we needed to have some time to settle into this new reality and see how good our theories were about what would happen.