The New York-based company Smallhold is on a mission to decrease the distance its mushrooms have to travel to reach their customers, and has installed miniature organic mushroom farms in the Standard, East Village hotel, the Lower Eastside Girls Club and various other locations across the city. Mushrooms may be an it-food among health-conscious types right now, but a delivery of funghi will still make for a delightfully unexpected holiday gift. With Flower, Heyman aims to further destigmatize the use of cannabis and support criminal reform efforts, so if you’re looking to give back this season, consider purchasing one of these fun Flower T-shirts or totes, 15 percent of proceeds from which will, depending on the item, be donated either to the Last Prisoner Project, Feeding America, the National Center for Transgender Equality or the Women’s Prison Association.ĭainty Decorations Kitschy Ornaments and Handcrafted Garlands These borosilicate glass pipes from the line - modeled after grapes, a banana, an orange and, my favorite, a cherry - double as cutesy home objects that can be on display even while parents are visiting. In 2019, Brett Heyman, the designer behind the fashion accessory brand Edie Parker, best known for its acrylic clutches with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, launched Flower by Edie Parker, which offers lighters, rolling trays and other cannabis-related ephemera, all in vibrant hues like aquamarine, periwinkle and bubble gum pink.
For a different kind of treat entirely, consider a box of Balbosté’s crystals, inspired by the Japanese gemlike candy kohakutou - or its white-chocolate-topped matcha fortune cookies (complete with personalized messages within), so delicate they can only be purchased in-person, at the Balbosté store in Paris.
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(A portion of the proceeds from this bar go to Spindleworks, a nonprofit arts center for adults with disabilities.) Also worth a taste and look are the ginger, bay leaf and chamomile flower bars that are part of Casa Bosques’s Makers Series ($20 each) - they were a collaboration between the Mexico City-based chocolatier and the chef and artist DeVonn Francis, and all proceeds from them support Black trans people via the Okra Project - or the brand’s three seasonal bars, which include a crisp, spicy Speculoos cookie covered in rich dark chocolate and in packaging printed with photography taken by Casa Bosques founder Rafael Prieto on his travels. I’m partial to the dark chocolate with nonpareils, and art by the painter Caroline Boylston. Each one is crafted in Bath, Maine, and wrapped in packaging that features the work of a local artist. What better way to sweeten the holiday season than with actual sweets? For the artistically inclined chocolate lovers in your life, try a bar from the small-batch confectionary La Nef Chocolate.
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