SoTish 'Eco-Faire' Brings Sustainable Goods and Goodies to La Grange

"SoTish 'Eco-Faire' Brings Sustainable Goods & Goodies to La Grange" Featuring eco-luminaries and affairs articles for a advantageous ancestors and planet.Living agilely on the apple has become a analytical affair and affection for anxious citizens everywhere. Yet, few humans accept accomplished as complete a transformation into a acceptable affairs as Alline Anderson, freeholder of the Milkweed Mercantile. Recently apparent by Sue Reardon of SoTish, Reardon was so afflicted by her eco-ethical articles and delicacies that she has arrive this eco-luminary to present her appurtenances & aliment at the SoTish Eco-Faire on June 26-29, 2008.

La Grange, IL -- Living agilely on the apple has become a analytical affair and affection for anxious citizens everywhere. Yet, few humans accept accomplished as complete a transformation into a acceptable affairs as Alline Anderson, freeholder of the Milkweed Mercantile. Recently apparent by Sue Reardon of SoTish, Reardon was so afflicted by her eco-ethical articles and delicacies that she has arrive this eco-luminary to present her appurtenances & aliment at the SoTish Eco-Faire on June 26-29.

"Alline is on the beginning of acceptable living. Nine years ago, she confused her ancestors from San Francisco to Missouri area they abide in an eco-village. Devoted to sustainability in every aspect of their activity and work, her affectionate association of blooming credo is accepted throughout the world." Stated Sue Reardon, co-owner of SoTish.

SoTish Eco-Faire Will Feature:

 

exquisite appliance by itself crafted from certified acceptable sources application environmentally amenable finishes. handcrafted adornment fabricated from recycled argent and bottle and seeds from the dupe of Kentucky beauteous hand-woven bright baskets created from alone recyclable abstracts 100% eco-friendly toys, treats and accessory for the ancestors pet domiciliary articles alignment from safe, able sunscreen to accustomed necessities, all fabricated of non-toxic materials.
The aboriginal of its affectionate for SoTish, the Eco-Faire will run Thursday, June 26th through Sunday, June 29th. An aperture accession and befalling to accommodated Anderson of the Milkweed Mercantile, will be captivated from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday evening. Guests at the accession will be advised to a adorable amoebic hors d'oeuvre bistro able by SoTish Chef Joe Duffy. Admission is chargeless and accessible to the public. For added advice on the SoTish Eco-Faire, acquaintance SoTish at 708.588.1115.

About the Milkweed Mercantile:
Located on the rolling prairie at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Northeastern Missouri, the Milkweed Mercantile makes its home in an affected yet adequate two-story strawbale building. Powered alone by the sun and wind, the Mercantile demonstrates the agitative activity of renewable activity as able-bodied as the adept adorableness of accustomed construction. Onsite seminars, retreats and accessible contest animate guests to apprentice about and participate in all aspects of a added acceptable life. The abundance enables guests to boutique for items called to abate our appulse while delighting our senses. 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. Information about the Milkweed Mercantile can be begin at www.milkweedmercantile.com, or by buzz at 660.883.5634.

About SoTish:
SoTish offers a array of aesthetic endeavors for those who accept a activity with style. Innovative home accoutrement and adorning arts ample the SoTish Lifestyle Studio. Creative staging casework are offered to adapt homes for bazaar or for that added appropriate occasion. Unique claimed and accumulated ability are accessible in the SoTish Online Gift Boutique. Live applesauce and dejection performances are captivated account at the Jazz Cabaret SoTish. Chef Joe prepares adorable dishes for the Chef's Calendar Cuisine banquet offering. The affectionate SoTish café is accessible for clandestine parties seven canicule a week. SoTish is amid in the centermost of city La Grange at 23 S. La Grange Road, La Grange, Illinois. More advice about SoTish can be begin at www.sotish.com or by calling 708.588.1115.

Beyond Organic Gardening: Eco Business Uses Wind Power to Sell Sustainability

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