vol. 110 / Rooted 🌱Here’s to celebrating the artists, small business owners, and nonprofits rooted in this place we call home.
VOL. 110 / ROOTED
Here’s to celebrating the artists, small business owners, and nonprofits rooted in this place we call home. This week, we’re featuring an illustrator documenting the natural world around her, community supported radio, and an entrepreneur bringing a new brand of healthy eats to the River City. Let’s get to it.
The Wild
Wander
Rooted in Richmond, Clara Cline, a self-taught illustrator known as The Wild Wander, is known for creating field guides for every state in the country. Her hand-illustrated letterpress charts detail flora and fauna native to each state. After working a series of office jobs, Clara turned her after-hours passion into a day job that fills her abiding curiosity for forgotten history and the natural world. In addition to her popular field guides, The Wild Wander offers original artwork featuring favorite trails and regions, apparel, greeting cards, and prints. You can check out Clara’s work at Awl Snap on Broad Street or visit her site to find Clara’s latest creations as she follows in the footsteps of early American naturalists.
Encapsulating the sound of Richmond since 2005, WRIR 97.3 FM is an all-volunteer, nonprofit community public radio station known for homegrown shows that offer a diverse listening experience featuring music, news, and views. We’re talking Open Source RVA, Frequency, Bebop and Beyond with Mr. Jazz, British Breakfast, and more. On Saturday, Richmond celebrates 15 years of RVA-focused, listener-supported radio at the Renaissance Ballroom with acts like No BS! Brass Band (pictured), Big No, The Hot Seats, Saw Black, Bon Ki, She, and BangNBest. The birthday bash will also feature an all LGBTQ rap show by the Secret Bonus Level band, an RVA Comedy Showcase hosted by Francesca Lyn, cake, and raffle items. Don’t miss a chance to celebrate community radio with your favorite WRIR DJs at the biggest birthday party for the RVA-focused, nonprofit station yet.
When Jaynay Jones, proud owner of Rooted Delights, went vegan in 2016, she struggled with giving up her favorite food—CHEESE! After dialing in a signature recipe over the course of a year, she took a leap of faith, ditched her nine-to-five job, and opened a vegan cuisine business specializing in a delicious Oat Milk Creamy Mozzah Cheez Wheel (dairy free, soy free, gluten free, tree nut free). In addition, she began curating private 4-course vegan events, vending around RVA, and traveling the East Coast doing pop-ups along the way. Today, you can score cheese wheels by Rooted Delights at Ellwood Thompson's, The Market at 25th, and Outpost Richmond as well as local restaurants and food trucks like 821 cafe, Intergalactic Tacos, Nomad Deli, and Root Stock Provisions. Better yet, meet Jaynay and her team in person at Urban Hang Suite every 3rd and 4th Wednesday of the month for Get Rooted Wednesdays.
