Family

Try these favorite fall recipes for Pumpkin Snack Bites, Cauliflower Hash Browns, Kale Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette, Pumpkin Pancakes, and Winter Squash and Cauliflower Curry.

St. Nick’s Day Shoes are a fun tradition! Shoes are set out the evening before St. Nick’s Day for little gifts to be found the next morning.

Thanks to everyone who contributed baby name ideas to Elf Tesla earlier this year. We’re happy to say she gave birth to a healthy baby girl on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17! Mother and child are both doing well, and they were finally able to visit the workshop this week to show off the newcomer.

Many of you who call our shop with questions know Elf Tesla very well. She’s been at the helm of our customer service team for several years, and is often the first to answer a ringing phone. As much as we love having her around, Tesla will be leaving us for a few months when […]

In our previous “Natural Learning” post, we explored the rise of outdoor schools, or “forest kindergartens,” across America (and their origins abroad). Even after all that research, we still had some questions about what it’s really like to opt into this alternative learning setting. We asked Soft Star’s good friend and natural living inspiration, Katy Bowman, to […]

“For 99 percent of the time we’ve been on Earth, we were hunters and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.” – […]

Why I Changed Careers for a Family-Friendly Workplace It has been five years now since I officially joined the Softstar Shoes family. Those are five years during which I have been able to bring my own family into work with me, for odd school holidays, snow days, or when they just needed extra “mama time.”  […]