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Thrifted with Love: Your Essential Secondhand Christmas Shopping Guide

Thrifted with Love: Your Essential Secondhand Christmas Shopping Guide By Kennedy Davis and Ashley Ramos We want to show gratitude this holiday season, so we’ve compiled some of our favorite places in the Upstate to shop secondhand! Buying secondhand clothing can reduce your carbon footprint by 82%. And in the U.S., around 85% of all textiles thrown […]

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Creating Resilient Communities After Hurricane Helene with Sustaining Way

Creating Resilient Communities After Hurricane Helene with Sustaining Way By Jenna Seigworth As the immediate threat of Hurricane Helene has subsided, many of us in the Upstate are taking a collective sigh of relief. At Sustaining Way, a nonprofit organization in the Nicholtown community, our focus has shifted from immediate relief efforts like pop-up food

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Honoring Indigenous Land and Legacy at Sustaining Way

Honoring Indigenous Land and Legacy at Sustaining Way By Fiona Lavin Steck Sustaining Way’s Land Usage Statement: Sustaining Way acknowledges that the land we steward at Annie’s House, along with the areas we serve in Nicholtown, New Washington Heights, and Spartanburg, rests on the ancestral homelands of the Cherokee and Catawba people. These people used

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