Meet the Artists
Tipper Valley Farm
Chelsey Mayse likes to say she has a “direct line of soapmaking” that goes back to her great-great-grandmother Eliza Jane.
Tipper Valley Farm, on the edge of Dry Creek near Morehead, Ky., is home to a small herd of La Mancha goats; hand-milked twice daily by Chelsey herself. It’s a family affair – Chelsey’s parents helped build her soapmaking studio and her handmade wooden soap molds, and she bases her recipes on those used by Eliza Jane.
Brenna McNabb
Brenna McNabb was a well-known Lexington, Ky. tattoo artist before she turned her hand to illustrating Chef Ouita Michel’s popular cookbook, Just a Few Miles South. We’ve been dreaming up other ways to display her vibrant artwork ever since and it now graces prints and notecards.
Originally from California, Brenna makes her home in Lexington with her husband (and Holly Hill Culinary Director) Tyler McNabb and their toddler twins, Ruby and Theo.
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Tucked away in a church basement on the north side of Lexington, Ky. is a social enterprise business named Matchstick Goods, where area students learn entrepreneurship, artistry, and life skills as they shape our handcrafted spoon rests and soap dishes.
Brisa, Shammah, Cristian and Asher are the Matchstick workers who crafted the pieces in our shop and every piece we sell is signed by one of them.
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Matchstick Goods
In a repurposed downtown schoolhouse, named for a prominent suffragette and educator, a homegrown Louisville non-profit is generating economic opportunity for women on the other side of the world and bringing handcrafted textiles and apparel back to the United States.
Each of our Bouquet Garni aprons from Anchal Project is signed by the artisan in Ajmer, India, who hand stitched it. Every signature is a message from the apron’s maker, “I know I’ll never be able to travel the world, but now I know my name will.”
Anchal Project
Lonnie and Twyla Money
Lonnie and Twyla Money have created legions of whimsical creatures from wood gathered on their farm in East Bernstadt, Ky. Working out of a converted milking barn, Lonnie carves each critter before giving it to Twyla to be painted by hand.
Lonnie didn’t take art-making seriously until nearby Berea College procured one of his pieces for a crafts marketing program. He and Twyla are both natives of Laurel County and have lived all their lives at the farm on Money Rd., just a mile away from Twyla’s childhood home.
Midway Bakery
It’s been eleven years since Chef Ouita Michel opened the Midway Bakery in the former basement cafeteria of the renovated Midway School Apartments in Midway, Ky.
Manager Sandy Allison and her Midway Bakery crew are old hands at baking cookies for our Ouita’s Favorite, Bourbon Lovers and Holiday boxes. The crew includes senior bakers Michael Barcus and Justin Traugott who have been there from the start!
The Midway Bakery bakes deliciousness into every box of cookies, along with a hearty helping of love.
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Tom Timmerman inherited a love of trees from his grandmother, who once transported a pecan seedling from her home in southern Indiana to his in northeastern Kentucky, cradling it between her feet for the duration of a six-hour car ride.
Tom created our Kentucky Oak spoon out of salvaged Kentucky hardwood. He and his wife Jen, and their young daughter Caelin, have turned Tom’s woodworking hobby into a family business.