Most of the time food and stories come together in the form of table fellowship: sit-down meals featuring long conversations and lots of love.

Let it be said: Laena McCarthy is an anarchist. Not the kind that advocates for a stateless society or that is violently belligerent.

For the past few years, something has been growing in Britta Riley’s kitchen window. As co-founder and current CEO of The Windowfarms Project, Britta is a fully hands-on member of the research and development team. In fact, so is everyone else involved in the company – including the customers. As if developing ways for city-dwellers to grow some portion of their own food, in their own apartment, isn’t innovative enough, Britta and her team also built the open-source wiki-style business and product plans.

Nestled in between vacant warehouses and bustling industrial yards, 3rd Ward offers both a playground and a serious workshop for creative professionals