THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Buy Once, Buy Well
When you run a business, you get asked a lot (by other business people) who your ‘target customers’ are – …
Kavalier and Clay
This is an extended quote from a Michael Chabon book, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – it is a wonderful narrative about two cousins who write comic books during the second world war. We read the book many years ago, and have recently revisited it (when we ask why we chose to read it again, it is difficult to work out… we would never read Ulysses again, because it felt long and arduous.This book did too, in places, the first time we read it. But it did keep calling from the bookshelf. We think the reason we chose to read …
Organic Gardening
This post on organic gardening started with us chatting to a vegan. He was suggesting that the moment you mentioned to people you were vegan, they labelled you, judged you on the kind of person you are and the problems you would cause them if they invited you to dinner. We feel the same happens when you mention to people you are an organic gardener, or you work your garden on organic principles. They seem to lean away from you, as if you are dirty, and most definitely untidy (who could allow weeds in their garden? And it is no …
Chelsea Fringe 2015 – ‘Contemporary Green’
End of May – so it must be time for Chelsea? Chelsea Fringe that is…. What is the Chelsea Fringe? The Chelsea Fringe is a flower festival that coincides with the Chelsea Flower Show. It is the anarchic, fun, breaks all the boundaries ‘big’ little sister of the main Chelsea event – we say ‘big’ little sister because in some ways, though currently less well-known, it encourages more access to gardening for more people. We love it, and it suits us here at Modern Mint – which is why we took part last year, with an online project which you can …