The Laborious Hour

Head farthest east in Tennessee to follow Marinda and her team through the historic LC King Factory as they update to an over 100 year old pattern, the 165. Hear all corners of factory ring as the first fresh design of many finishes its way across factory floors.

Hear Mr. LaClair and crew fracture up an ice rink and roll up tubing for the truck back home.

The Laborious Hour presents sounds of six hardworking women across the Florida keys facing the first new year since Hurricane Irma. Any of you all know how it can be to work down there? Time to find out!

Tune in this month with Marianne van den Broek of Just Sand and Water on the United State's southernmost shore. Hear carving, scraping and roosters while she transforms sand and water into monumental treasure!

Hear Will Tarleton of Six Boot's Growers Collective trim his first Hemp plant of the year. Trimming one of 200 plants we get a sense of the scale at the operation and appreciate what a labor of love one of the first legal hemp crops in Tennessee. Sounds heard included a hose, footsteps, dogs, roosters, plant trimming, sticky fingers and a surprise reaction to an undesirable insect.

Tune into the first ever Laborious Hour to hear the start of a peanut cart and the tiniest cell phone shop with the biggest heart.