All In A Day's Work

Boondoggle Baking’s Amelia Lohrenz bakes sourdough loaves in the mud oven she and her partner, Andrew McCarthy, built at their Tetonia home. 

By day, Nick Arens works as production manager for Gravity Graphics in Victor. But in his free time, he’s roaming around Idaho, Montana, and beyond in search of jade and other gems to turn into jewelry.

Blaine Ball’s winter mornings start while most of us are sleeping—not predawn eye flutters asleep, but drooling on the pillow asleep, unconsciously stealing blankets from your partner asleep.

The studio is quiet, save for the spinning wheel with a single smack of clay centered in front of Chelsea Phelps. “This all feels like a dream,” she says, smiling, as she pushes on the pedal of the potter’s wheel to keep the tempo consistent.

“Small, local farmers love the work they do, but most are getting by on thin margins,” says Erika Eschholz, co-owner and farmer at Teton Full Circle Farm. “It’s a delicate balance.” Erika explains the majority of the profit small farmers make is often used to hire more employees or create improvements on the farm. “A […]