Sustainability is the key for the Milkweed Mercantile, a new business active alone on sun and wind power. Sharing aggregate from artisan aliment recipes to the secrets of amoebic gardening, the Milkweed Mercantile, an Eco General Store, B&B and Organic Café, is housed in an affected two-story strawbale building. Setting new belief for businesses calling themselves "green," the Mercantile sells eco-friendly goods, hosts guests in a absolutely blooming B&B and presents seminars and retreats for those gluttonous a added acceptable way of life. http://milkweedmercantile.com/
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Rutledge, MO -- Sustainability is the key for the Milkweed Mercantile, a new business active alone on sun and wind power. Sharing aggregate from artisan aliment recipes to the secrets of amoebic gardening, the Milkweed Mercantile, an Eco General Store, B&B and Organic Café, is housed in an affected two-story strawbale building. Setting new belief for businesses calling themselves "green," the Mercantile sells eco-friendly goods, hosts guests in a absolutely blooming B&B and presents seminars and retreats for those gluttonous a added acceptable way of life. (http://milkweedmercantile.com/)
Credibility is our a lot of important asset, and so we do our best to break honest and authentic We are not traveling to accompany the ranks of 'green' businesses traveling to the accomplished bidder. Brimming with handcrafted artisan appurtenances and anxiously advised eco wares, the Eco General Store fills a charge not met by added "green" emporia. With austere belief for what can (and cannot) be sold, and the absence of paid advertising, the Mercantile absolutely subscribes to the business ideal of Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet and Profit. Visitors to the Mercantile, whether in being or online, will be advised to a absolutely unstuffy adaptation of green, area acquirements and adequate activity are accustomed a top priority.
The Mercantile is amid in Northeastern Missouri on the rolling tallgrass prairie at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, a association whose associates are committed to active ecologically sustainable, socially advantageous lives, and to administration the abilities and account abaft that lifestyle. In befitting with ecovillage goals, the Mercantile offers onsite seminars, retreats and accessible contest advised to animate guests to participate in all aspects of a added acceptable life. Included are seminars on solar and wind power, amoebic gardening, accomplished foods cooking, artisan aliment baking, composting, activity efficiency, yoga, bike maintenance, able communication, addition construction, writing, knitting, quilting, and beer brewing.
Visitors accept the befalling to sample all aspects of blooming active as able-bodied as the adorableness and calmness of the prairie landscape. Star-filled skies, fireflies and a melancholia arrangement of wildflowers and songbirds all cabal to accomplish the acquaintance one in a lifetime.
The Milkweed Mercantile online abundance opened August 2008; the B&B is demography anxiety for a December opening.
Six things that accomplish the Milkweed Mercantile altered from added "Green" Businesses:
1. An about aught Carbon Footprint. Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, now in its 11th year, is absolutely off the filigree (solar and wind ability abound); homes and businesses are complete of strawbales and reclaimed barge (and are beautiful!). Rainwater, the gold accepted for baptize quality, is acclimated for affable and bathing. Forty villagers allotment three cars in a address that runs on biodiesel. Food is bounded and organic, and just about aggregate is composted and recycled. Trendy? Nope. Just the way things are done.
2. The Milkweed Mercantile website carries no bartering - "Credibility is our a lot of important asset, and so we do our best to break honest and authentic," says freeholder Alline Anderson. "We are not traveling to accompany the ranks of 'green' businesses traveling to the accomplished bidder."
3. The Milkweed Mercantile is crafting a new business paradigm. The business is accepting complete as an addendum of ecologically-based lives, not for an IPO. Employee-owned with no added shareholders, all agents (including the founders) are paid the aforementioned alternate wage. Profits are breach at the end of the year based on hours worked. All areas of the Mercantile, including the kitchen, affection a auspicious abridgement of bureaucracy - anybody takes turns abrasion pots, abrading carrots and demography out the compost.
4. All articles agitated in the store, B&B and café have to run the agents gauntlet and accommodated one or added of the afterward belief to be advised absolutely eco-friendly: Organic, Fair Trade, fabricated of recycled or re-purposed materials, produced by environmentally and socially amenable companies or non-profits, and backbone are all considered. Disposable bamboo plates or disposable charwoman wipes? You won't acquisition them at the Mercantile. Let's apprehend it for accepted sense!
5. The Milkweed Mercantile is run the aforementioned way the agents abide their lives - sustainably, foolishly and with lots of laughter. All staffers are associates of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage area active agilely aloft the apple is their amount one priority.
6. No one anytime has to sing Kumbya.
For added advice on the Milkweed Mercantile, including photos or to align an interview, acquaintance freeholder Alline Anderson.
About The Milkweed Mercantile:
Sustainability is the key for the Milkweed Mercantile, a new business active alone on sun and wind power. Sharing aggregate from artisan aliment recipes to the secrets of amoebic gardening, the Milkweed Mercantile, an Eco General Store, B&B and Organic Café, is housed in an affected two-story strawbale building. Setting new belief for businesses calling themselves "green," the Mercantile sells eco-friendly goods, hosts guests in a absolutely blooming B&B and presents seminars and retreats for those gluttonous a added acceptable way of life.
Contact:
Alline Anderson, Proprietor
The Milkweed Mercantile
660-883-5522
alline at milkweedmercantile dot com
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