by Erin Conlon In 2020, North Brooklyn saw a rise in mutual aid efforts as more and more community members were spending less time commuting and more time in their own neighborhoods. There also was, of course, a global pandemic. Those facts, combined with a trip to Germany, inspired Birgit Rathsmann to start Plumes in our neck of the woods.
“I was visiting my parents who live outside Munich and read a book…
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