02/10/2026
From farm to fork. What happens in the middle?
During ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐จ๐ป๐ณ๐ถ๐น๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ last week, Kael Gillam challenged us to think beyond the numbers on a product report and ask a more fundamental question: what happens between the raw material and the finished luminaire?
Do you know where your materials come from? Are they recycled and recyclable? How far do they travel? How much of the making process is within your control? Quality checks you trust?
Sausage analogies aside, it's true that the messy bit in the middle can sometimes be tricky to see. Since the 90s, the Stoane Lighting approach has followed a few, simple steps:
๐ Source locally
๐ Make to order
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Make locally
๐ Control the process
๐ก Build to perform
โณ๏ธ Build for long life
๐ Design for disassembly
๐ค Support it for 25 years