Featured on Gone Rural Blog

I just launched the Gone Rural blog, and there is a classy article featuring moi. The photo that they use is that of me at the US England Game in Rustenberg, South Africa. The atmosphere was amazing - the Americans were dressed in revolutionary war garb and rocked don't tread on me flags. The Brits were quite friendly, for the most part, and seemed relieved to have tied finished the game with a tie. Then again, the side that they brought to the World Cup was definitely more skilled than Team USA, so in a way I'm sure that it was disappointing. Anyway, see the blog post below.

Our new intern with his home-town hero, Elvis, at the World Cup.

Tristan Hayes joined Gone Rural at the beginning of September as our new marketing intern. According to Tristan, "The warmth of the atmosphere at GR is incomparable to any other place that I have worked. My "office" overlooks the fields of Malkerns and is situated in the same space as Gone Rural's product development area. I am so lucky to be able to watch the organization's products develop every day."

Tristan came with experience in handcrafts from his previous position as coordinator of Pure Swazi. There he organized training workshops sponsored by the UNDP and Standard Bank and also helped manage the www.pureswazi.com website. Before working at Pure Swazi, Tristan performed market research while working as an antitrust analyst at Nathan Associates, Inc. in Washington, D.C. "Gone Rural is a special place, and I'm excited to help both the firm and the artisans grow!"