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THE DENVER CHEESEMONGER TALKS PERSONAL STYLE, FAVORITE BARS AND OMA. EVERYONE, MEET KATE KIRKWOOD.

LET YOUR UNIVERSE ALIGN: HIGHLIGHTING LOCAL SHOP SUB ROSA MERCANTILE

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FLINT: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

A note from the editor

Ah, March. A month of rejoice for wamer weather and inept promises of spring cleaning.

FLORA || FAUNA shares its first zine with a fresh perspective in mind, finding Denver’s best trends and places.

In this issue, we dive into the cheese world with Denver’s own Kate Kirkwood, a cheesemonger who has recently become an ACS certified cheese professional, one of twelve in the country. We discuss personal style and life in Denver, as well as, well, CHEESE.

Continuing the Denver theme, we deliver your Spring musts with local shops and trends worth checking out in the mile high city.

Finally, I speak with a Michigan native working in Flint, MI, to discuss the city’s water crisis and the symptoms lead infused water has left for the people residing in Genesee county.

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Editor-in-Chief CARLEEHENDERSON.COM Instagram: @CARLEEAH7

PG.3 THE DENVER SIX: MARCH FAVORITES PG.4 FLORA || FAUNA INTERVIEWS: KATE KIRKWOOD PG.8 FLINT: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON PG.9 DENVER’S OWN: SUB ROSA MERCANTILE IN SUNNYSIDE PG.10 TAROT CARD 101: BEGINNER’S GUIDE

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Kate works for New World Cheese in Denver.

2504 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206 wwww.newworldcheese.com Follow Kate on IG @katekirkwood

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THE denver SIX: march favorites MERCANTILE DINING AND PROVISION

Address: 1701 Wynkoop St #155, Denver, CO 80202 mercantiledenver.com

New American fare with strong European influences. Chef and proprietor Alex Seidel’s second restaurant establishment offers open and bright market complete with homemade provisions. Serving breakfast, lunch and full service dinner, the atmosphere is warm and the ambient setting comes complete with exceptional hospitality from serving staff. Not to mention the savvy and stylish bartenders!

7AM-10PM daily.

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1950 W 32nd Ave, Denver, CO 80211 occidentalbar.com

Owner Sean Kenyon’s second establishment comes to LoHi with fresh and high quality cocktails, all with a badass punk undertone.

Excellent addition to the neighborhood and smart location with great food and fantastic

views of the skyline.

Open until 2AM daily.

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DECADE

56 S Broadway, Denver, CO 80209

One of the best South Broadway finds offering home goods and decor, as well as clothing and accessories for the artistic and stylish Denver community.

Great shop for finding the perfect gift for any occassion.

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denverdarling.com IG: @denver.darling

Blogger Abby Miller roams the Mile High city in style.

Offering style and city advice for food and social experiences, Miller shares travels and overall positive mantra of why it’s so great to live in Denver!

AMETHYST COFFEE COMPANY 1111 broadway st, suite 101 denver, co 80203

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Celebrating their 1 year anniversary last month, the always charming owner and barista Elle Taylor makes one feel right at home in her cozy coffee shop in the heart ofdowntown.

Start your morning with a sharply dressed cortado then stay for a well rounded coffee cocktail with fellow caffeine addict friends.

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COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO: THE APP www . cpr . org

Offering latest news and community services for your phone.

Now able to tab through choices for News, CPR Open Air, and Classical stations on one platform with a sleek design.

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F L O R A || F A U N A

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INTERVIEWS

NAME: Kate Kirkwood

EDUCATION: University of Colorado, and School for International Training PROFESSION: American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional and Cheesemonger AGE: Twenty­Nine CITY: Denver

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR JOB:

I've been a monger for six years, and the main component of my job is to educate on and find the ideal cheese for the customer, while making artisan cheese accessible to everyone. Cheese is something many people are quietly passionate about until you open up the discussion, giving someone a taste or just a view of that sexy geo rind or gargantuan wheel of Parmigiano, and their whole face changes.

The drug like euphoria (upon digesting caseins which activate the opioid receptors in the brain) that cheese can cause is absolutely warranted.

Breaking down the cheeses and taking care of them is always cathartic for me as well­sometimes I think cheese saved my life! The longer I'm in the industry, the more I feel connected to bettering myself and spreading the good word on cheese, which led me to take the leap into sitting for the American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional Exam.

After a really difficult year in my personal life, it was important to turn passion into purpose, to prove to myself that I could accomplish something like this.

Preparing for the certification takes months of study and lots of support from peers. The world of cheese has so many varied components that you're learning a lot of them from scratch. For me, the microbiology and chemistry of cheese was a challenge, but such a rewarding one to comprehend.

HOW DID YOUR PROFESSION COME ABOUT?

As a high schooler, I frequently perused cheese counters and would cook with a friend’s dad, who would always encourage a cheese course during our dinners. To reignite my passions for food and beverage pairings, I worked as a barista throughout college though hadn’t yet become privy to the rich coffee community that now radiates through Denver, where people are making their careers out of something previous generations often understood as a transition job.

The culture (pun intended) of cheese has become the next frontier in reviving and retaining artisanal and agricultural practices in the US (though its been significant for many years).

WHAT ARE THE BEST PARTS OF YOUR CAREER AND THE OBSTACLES YOU FACE?

The people are absolutely the best part (after the actual cheese). The community of cheesemongers, makers, and everyone in between are more focused on support and good practices than competition. I enjoy the camaraderie, collaboration, the humor, humbleness, the animals, and the open education.

Obstacles can present themselves monetarily - none of us are in this industry to be rich, though we’re enriched by endless opportunities to learn, to travel, to eat well, and help others.

Often, I get the odd fifty year old man telling me to “be careful har dee har har” when I’m handling a knife or using a slicer, and my restraint against saying something isn’t always enforced! Though tides are turning for the better, I think many women in this industry, and let’s face it, all industries, work on dismantling outdated fragile princess bullshit. That we couldn’t possibly have the taste or strength or skill to be trusted as experts.

FAVORITE CHEESE:

Oma, Bonne Bouche, Rogue River Blue, Harbison, Appalachian Tomme DESCRIBE YOUR DAY TO DAY:

I wake up to very loud meowing after the first alarm! On work days, I listen to Classical or OpenAir on Colorado Public Radio during the commute and people watch. I try to read or write story or screenplay ideas, too. I’d love for most of my time to be spent in creative pursuits when it’s not with cheese or loved ones.

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YOU’VE LIVED IN DENVER YOUR WHOLE LIFE. HOW HAS THIS CITY EVOLVED IN YOUR EYES AS A NATIVE?

Denver was an idyllic place to grow up, in that I was fortunate enough to experience a diverse populace in my neighbors and schoolmates, it made me more self aware of the privileges and hardships that affect people in our city.

I lived a couple blocks walk from South Broadway, perusing odd shops, staring at the gargantuan beauty of the Mayan Theatre, eating slices from Famous Pizza, and hanging out (working off late fines) at the Ross-Broadway branch of the Denver Public Library. Twist and Shout was a short walk away on Alameda at the time too, and I spent much of my babysitting money there. The mountains and especially places like Georgetown, Estes Park, Grand Lake, and Tiny Town were always an accessible, underpopulated way for a city kid like me to explore nature better.

Denver is a place that still, even with its growing density, offers both solitude and the bustle of food culture and architecture, with mostly kind and honest people making a home here. I do find myself getting frustrated with many of the places I love and admired becoming unrecognizable and too expensive. The people who have shaped Denver and made it what it is are getting pushed out and replaced by... well, yuppies with a very specific and often shallow vision of what it means to have a full (and culturally respectful) life.

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL STYLE?

Alison Mosshart has a tea party.

WHAT INFLUENCES YOU?

Art greatly, in its many forms, writing, film, music. My boyfriend’s connection to the ocean and nature really influences my ambitions to be more involved in preservation and see more of the wild parts of the planet.

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Women everywhere inspire me, and too often, fictional characters and pop cultural icons. Humans of New York and all that encompasses, Anais Nin, Josephine Baker, the women of Mad Men, Frida Kahlo, Patti Smith, Julia Child.

FAVORITE PLACES IN DENVER:

All of the historic districts, the Middle Eastern, Asian, and Mexican marketplaces, Mercantile dining and provision, Amethyst coffee, Twist & Shout, Cheesman Park, Black and Read, Ironwood, Ritual, Trve Brewing, Stella’s Coffee Haus, the Mayan Theatre, Bluebird Theatre, Denver Art Museum FAVORITE CITIES TO TRAVEL TO:

Prague, New Orleans, Paris, San Diego.

FAVORITE ARTISTS:

To name a few, Frida Kahlo (twice mentioned, I know), Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, Egon Schiele, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tamara de Lempicka (and the entire Art Deco movement), Marsha Robinson (aka strangedirt), Edward Gorey, Alphonse Mucha, Edward Hopper, the Wyeths, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Saul Bass, Artemisia Gentileschi, Nicole Jo Melton. //

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The drug like euphoria (upon digesting caseins which activate the opioid receptors in th e brain) that cheese can cause is ab solutely warranted.

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FLINT

“my hands hurt// they are so dry.�

Although children are primarily at risk, lead poisoning is also dangerous for adults.

Signs and symptoms in adults may include:

High blood pressure

Abdominal pain

Constipation Joint pains Muscle pain Declines in mental functioning Pain, numbness or tingling of the extremities Headache

Memory loss Mood disorders

Reduced sperm count, abnormal sperm Miscarriage or premature birth in pregnant women

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The quaint neighborhood of Sunnyside, located north of LoHi in Denver, is filled with promising business.

Sub Rosa Mercantile is a perfect example of bringing life back into owning your own business and successful self marketing strategies.

The moment you walk into her sundrenched shop, you are greeted with a smile and soothing, trendy tunes.

Filled with home goods for the gypsies, hippies and all around earth lovers, the shop glistens with crystals, colorful pottery, vibrant succulents and visually stimulating posters, books and art decor.

A theme of bohemian chic is apparent as you comfortably walk around the charming store.

Sub Rosa Mercantile Address: 2337 W 44th Ave, Denver, CO 80211 subrosamercantile.com

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TAROT READING 101

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Shuffle face down in palms while simultaneously asking yourself question(s). Lay cards face down in order as you would read them (numbered below). Read in order. Shown: Celtric Cross Style BEST DECK PURCHASE: Rider Tarot Deck and Book $10 (online)

PLACEMENT MEANING

1. Present Atmosphere 2. Obstacle 3. Past 4. Recent Past 5. What May Happen 6. What Will Happen 7. Fear 8. Family & Friends 9. Hopes 10.Final Outcome

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MAJOR ARCANA

MINOR ARCANA

Twenty-two themes which mark, portray and symbolise stages in our psyche where we aim to become a balanced and integrated person.

WANDS: relates to the

element of Fire and is representative of inspiration, spirituality, ideas and energy flow.

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PENTACLES: relates to the

element of Earth and is representative of money, financial resources,material

Along this journey, we encounter challenges, face adversity, perform labors, make hard decisions and fight opposing forces.

Each step of the way brings us closer to enlightenment.

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possessions and career.

CUPS: relates to the element of Water and is representative of emotions, relationships, feelings and creativity.

SWORDS: relates to the

element of Air and is representative of power, rationality, the intellect, and thoughts.

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