Sara Clow is a native of the Garden State, and one of my very best friends. We grew up together in the New Jersey suburbs, playing soccer and spending days exploring our extended outdoor “neighborhood.” Sara is also General Manager of Growfood Carolina, a food hub based here in Charleston, SC. Since being recruited by […]

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Holy City Brewing is a North Charleston-based craft brewer that offers ales and lagers for all tastes. Founded in 2011, they earned a Gold Medal award at the Great American Beer Festival for their Pluff Mud Porter and a Bronze for their Washout Wheat. They’ve also been named the Best Local Brewery in Charleston for […]

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On this episode of The Way Out There we hang out with Marianne Hudson, a naturalist and wildlife educator at Russell Lands on Lake Martin in central Alabama. Marianne is a lifelong student of nature and an avid outdoorsman with years of experience using forests as classrooms. Since graduating as a Wildlife Biologist from the […]

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Today on The Way Out There we hang out with Zack Hall, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of the Ville to Ville Craft Brew Relay. The Ville to Ville is a 73-mile team relay race from Asheville, NC to Greenville, SC centered around and celebrating the craft beer industry in Western North Carolina and Upstate […]

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Today on The Way Out There we hang out with Chet Morse, Site Director for The Bend in Charleston, SC. The Bend is an innovative community redevelopment project owned by Charleston native Susan Pearlstine. Susan and Chet are working to revitalize The Bend’s 20 acres and surrounding neighborhood while forging a new path for how […]

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The Trailer Welcome to The Way Out There, a new podcast series from the crew at Outpost and Blue Ion. As part of our push to reconnect people to the outdoors, and as podcast junkies ourselves, we wanted to launch a show that explored the essential relationship between people and the natural world. To meet […]

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