Happy Holidays everyone! Some quick news on PieLab in Alabama since it’s opening in early November.

Pie shop used as venue to connect to Hale residents

(originally published from Tuscaloose News with photo by Dusty Compton and article written by Tiffany Stanton)

Almost a dozen varieties of pie were available at Pie Lab’s grand opening celebration in November.

They sat on old racks scavenged from the remains of failed restaurants — filling the shop with the smells of banana cream and pear berry, lemon meringue and organic cranberry — when Jenny Holmes of Folsom, walked in off Greensboro’s Main Street. And she bought a slice of nearly everything she saw.

But the young people rolling dough and ringing up Holmes’ bill wanted her thoughts more than they wanted her money.

Pie Lab, they said, isn’t really about pie: It’s about using design for social good. Read more >