The Early Summer 2024 issue of Urban St. is available online

In this issue:

Features

12 Blending music, animals & nature
How repairman and photographer Paul Kober captures nature

16 Third spaces provide an essential break between work and life
A look into Cafe Tamaki’s relaxing tea culture

20 A home garden from scratch
Shannon Schultheis shares potager tips

You gotta try this!

30 Visiting a seed library
“Borrow” herb and vegetable plants to reseed

40 Hibachi and fried sushi
Lucky Sushi Cafe just might make you a “sushi person”

Dine around

26 Chop Shop Primehouse
Experience fine dining in a lakeside hideaway

32 Crockery Creek Saloon
Travelers and residents sip on Nunica’s ‘creek water’

Urban Kitchen

29 Focaccia bread
Recipe by Mother Tongue Kitchen in Fennville

39 Cheesy cauliflower ‘breadsticks’
Ditch the flour and focus on the cheese, per Fustini’s

Community

42 Giving back
Holland Hospital lauds volunteers

36 Urban St. Reads
The Book Warehouse shares some “serious reads”

24 Festival preview

In every issue

6 Editor’s letter
8 On our radar
54 Calendar of events