German Soto talks about cultivation in the indigenous Moseten community, located downriver from Rurrenabaque in the Bolivian Amazon. The community’s methods of farming are about as organic and local as it gets, but they farm this way because it’s tradition—not a revolution.

Sachamama Nature Reserve, Salento Colombia

Not all coffee farms are created equal. Pedro Lorenzo Burgos Grajales and his wife Maryori grow coffee in a different way, and for reasons other than distribution. They live with their children and nephew in a Swiss Family Robinson-esque home in the hills outside of Salento, Colombia, and live lives dedicated to the pursuit of whole, slow foods, radical permaculture, and land reclamation. Their coffee is the best we’ve ever tasted, hands down.

This is their story.

Stepping a bit off the organic trail and into the depths of the jungle (don’t worry… everything you wanted to know about the culture of Amazonas fishing coming soon!), we put this promotional video together for Amazon Gero Tours, based out of Manaus, Brazil. 

Please note that we’re not selling out: the warm light we paint them in is not solely for their promotional purposes. We highly recommend their tour, though our next trip to the jungle will hopefully be less guided. Regardless, these guys are great. No taking sloths out of trees for photo ops here! 

Scratching the surface of the organic revolution in Colombia!

Farmer’s Market, Villa de Leyva

Best Churrascaria in Bogota

Believe everything you’ve ever heard about Bogota. The people are beautiful, the cobblestoned streets are narrow, the beer is cheap, the dancing is everywhere, the cocaine offers are abundant, the music is loud, the graffiti is outstanding, the buildings are old, and the conversations are kind. Food is fried and salted and served with rice—hamburguesa stands outnumber fruit markets by at least five to one. 

Residents will say the city is laid out on a grid, but the snaking throughway of Avenue Jimenez and the twisting heights of La Candelaria lack the rectangular constants of Manhattan. La Candelaria is to Bogota what Williamsburg is to Brooklyn. Crumbling colonial buildings and small cervecerias attract a burgeoning bacano (hipster) scene that can be found in the neighborhood’s tattoo shops, hip restaurants and late-night dance clubs. Everyone says that Bogota is immeasurably different—safer—than it was even five years ago, and though the city’s youth have adjusted as such, the sidewalks are still all but rolled up by midnight.

Plazas are, at any given time but without schedule, mercados de pulgos (flea markets), bustling with vendors hawking beaded jewelry, rasta pants and leather bags. Mobile vendors wheel carts through the streets offering candy, freshly squeezed juice and cigarettes, and grilled corn or carne on a stick is served at every major intersection. It’s one of South America’s biggest cities, and one of her best.

Bienvenido a Bogota!

Once upon a time Ryan Cheresnick, a film student and aspiring musician, met Lisette Johnson, a journalism student and aspiring poet. It didn’t take many conversations for them both to realize that they were a dynamite team, and it wasn’t half a year before they realized they were in it for the long haul.

Five years, three cross-country road trips, and a thousand adventures later, Cheresnick and Johnson became Cheresson in a colorful ceremony in the Catskills. And what’s the best way to test drive a new marriage? Obviously. Begin creative collaboration.

We believe that the world is full of untold stories, and that everyone should have a shot at telling his or hers. While we’d never turn down a chance to broadcast said stories in notable venues, we care more about making connections with subjects than using them for personal gain. That’s to say: our collaboration, our ART, per-se, is as rooted in the joy of making as it is in the hope of commercial success.

We hope you find a nugget of golden truth in our work, or that in our work you find an optimism and honesty about humanity that takes root as a form of inspiration. Or, at the very least, that you enjoy it.

All comments and suggestions will be happily received at cheresson@gmail.com.

Thanks for visiting!