As I walked around the lower bowl of the festival the most wonderful scent caught my attention and lead me to the Rocky Mountain Soap booth where I met co-owner and manager Kazuyo Iga.
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Kazuyo worked in the Banff location for four years when in November of 2007 her and husband Scott decided to open […]

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As someone who lived in Japan for eight years and regretfully never attended a Japanese tea ceremony, I was happy to attend the tea ceremony hosted by Silk Road Tea at the festival today, in the very authentic tea room.
The tea house was founded and built by TAKATA volunteers and is use exclusively for Japanese […]

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I love coffee and I really love organic coffee (just read my Twitter profile). So I was happy to stroll up to a line of stainless steel urns full of direct, organic, fair trade, dark roast coffee under the Level Ground Trading tent.  Once the cheerful folks behind the coffee bar filled my cup, I […]

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