Green and Sustainable Gifts
Just Fare Market at 1225 4th Street, Fond du Lac (located inside First Presbyterian Church) is a source of Green and Sustainable Gifts. Shop hours are 9:30-1:30 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 9:00-noon on the second Sunday of the month.
Visit the Just Fare website at www.justfare.org
Field guide bags embroidered with bird and flower designs by Women of the Cloud Forest in Costa Rica http://www.womenofthecloudforest.com/Home.html.
Seed jewelry made by this group is also available.
Available for those who understand the importance of avoiding plastic and bringing your own bags are sturdy shopping bags made by artisans in India and imported by Global Crafts http://www.giftswithhumanity.org/
Just Fare offers a wide array of unique products made from recycled materials such as earrings made from wire and phone cards, animals sculptured from flip-flops that wash on to the ocean shores in Kenya, bags made from recycled rice bags and recycled juice and water containers and beautiful bead jewelry made from recycled magazines. Perhaps the most interesting of the handmade papers available in the shop is Mr Ellie Pooh Paper. Learn the details at http://store.mrelliepooh.com/
Most of the coffee and chocolate is organic. Equal Exchange works with small farmer producers to improve their forest habitat. http://www.equalexchange.coop/is-your-coffee-shade-grown. Equal Exchange's organic cocoa is cultivated on small plots, and usually under a shade canopy that preserves critical elements of the native Dominican and Peruvian forests. Biologists have determined that this gentle, chemical free method of farming helps to maintain bio-diversity and protect the winter habitat of millions of migratory song birds. For related information, see
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