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This is our first newsletter! Thank you for subscribing in the first place, for believing in us. This email is a milestone for us. Everything is a work in progress, so feel free to get in touch with your suggestions. You can reply to this email. July we moved house, and now we are feeling recalibrated and inspired, equally a catalyst for rethinking possessions. This month we're featuring editorial for elevated spaces, warming recipes to nourish the body and sharing an edit—our favourite finds and discoveries.

Sauerkraut is a nourishing and mouth-watering recipe. There is certainly pleasure in preparing your condiments, but our love story with sauerkraut delivered a financial payoff! For NZ$10, we produced approximately 2 kg of delicious sauerkraut. Considerably cost-effective and high in gut health, this is a major essential.

We have curated the Internet's DIY cleaning solutions—the minimum and also the maximum of what you need to keep clean and healthy spaces. This is everything we use for our household, all plant-based and non-toxic—no hormone disruptors, chemicals et cetera. We also save $250 per year on commercial cleaning products.

Very much a scent discovery month, here Trace is exploring vegan and cruelty-free fragrances from Le Labo, Aesop, Grandiflora and Brooklyn based D.S & Durga. Often we hear that natural fragrances cannot be sophisticated, that they cannot stand up alongside modern scents. Not true.

A conversation on regenerative agriculture is a projection into the future. This resilient agricultural model, based on permaculture design principles addresses food security issues while mitigating climate change impact—and yet regenerative agriculture is rarely discussed as a viable solution at governance scale.

1. If you love Nature, following Paul Nicklen is quite possibly the best way to travel lately. An incredible wildlife photographer, Nicklen is the co-founder of Sea Legacy with his wife Cristina Mittermeier and a regular contributor to National Geographic.
   
   
2. On my nightstand, I finally finished Curing Affluenza. Next on the list—Becoming, by Michelle Obama, and Red Moon by Miranda Eve Gray.
   
   
3. Embracing reducing plastic consumption every day, every month is easy thanks to this account.
   

1. While the potato industry here is under threat, I'm supporting our locally grown, my favourite ways to have them—baked and thrown into bowls like this one.
   
   
2. The plastic bag is officially over, as is Plastic Free July and this one is still my go-to. Keep one in your bag, in the car, in your coat pocket (yes, it is that compact!); they're perfect for grocery hauls.
   
   
3. I'm halfway through The Overspent American, a must-read for anyone that feels trapped in a "work and spend" cycle. One chapter in and everything (or almost everything) becomes very clear.
   

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Tracey Creed & Amandine Paniagua