This post was written by FIG’s owner and Chief Fresh Officer, Sylvia R. Tawse. Sylvia and her husband Lyle Davis own and operate Pastures of Plenty, a 35-acre organic vegetable, herb and cut flower farm in Boulder County, CO, complete with a thriving CSA and true farm-to-table catering. As both a farmer and a PR […]
What We Learned at Expo West
With more than 70,000 attendees annually, Natural Products Expo West is the largest natural products tradeshow in the world. In many ways it feels more akin to a music festival than an industry event. In the triangle of buildings where the show is held, people crowd every spare surface, laptops (and often drinks) in hand. […]
PRSA Student Shadow Day
FIG hosted University of Northern Colorado student, Austin Pond, as part of the Public Relations Society of America’s Shadow Day. We’re thrilled to have Austin as a guest blogger this week to talk about his experience. My PRSA Shadow Day started at 9:30 in Denver. I drove from my sister’s house in Wash Park to […]
GETTIN’ FIGGY WITH: Glenda Catron, Senior Account Manager
How did you get your start in PR? I went to school for Speech Communication/Media Studies and decided I wanted to do PR. I then enrolled in the Journalism school as a second major, concentrating in PR. My first “real” PR experience was interning for a local sport/entertainment arena in the area. The internship focused […]
Organic Shopping as a Designed Experience
While roaming the streets of Sloane Square in London after a week at sea, my dad urged us to pop into a small, chic looking space that “has been doing organic since it was cool,” according to him. That space, which encompassed two floors in a compact footprint, ended up being an outpost of Daylesford. […]