Welcome! This is Coralee, the items in my shop explore relationships---between food, culture, people, and the land. As part of the care for these relationships, I work with local, organic, sustainable suppliers and materials as much as possible. This means I choose folks who are doing good work in their communities; I choose water based or water soluble inks; I choose recycled (and eventually degradable) paper; my shipping materials are paper and compostable; and I choose organic cotton for my fabrics.

My namesake Kore (also Cora) is the Roman name of the goddess Persephone. After eating a few pomegranate seeds in the underworld, Persephone can't leave. Demeter, Persephone's mother, searches for her and finally discovers that Zeus gave Persephone to Hades. Through her persistent advocacy for justice, Demeter wins Persephone's return to Earth for half of each year. As Persephone returns, she ushers in life after winter. Her story represents interconnection between life and death, action and rest, mothers and daughters, rupture and repair.

I named my shop for Kore to honor Persephone. I added Lea which is a field or arable land. I hope my shop helps to nourish relationships between people and people, people and place, and helps to restore balance in some small way.

My dear banner photo is by Lena Khrupina from Pexels. <3