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Fair Trade Vendors
Plowsharing Crafts
Plowsharing Crafts , with two stores in the University City Loop and Kirkwood, is a not-for-profit, fair trade organization helping artisans in developing countries earn a fair wage for their work. Products for sale include a wide variety of items, including jewelry, musical instruments, clothing, baskets, holiday items, home decor, toys, and games, from 40+ countries. Plowsharing Crafts is a project of the St. Louis Mennonite Fellowship, in business since 1985. Staffed by volunteers, and Plowsharing Crafts always welcomes new peoplejoining our volunteer family. Plowsharing Crafts is a member of the Ten Thousand Villages network, also selling products brought to the United States by Serrv, Partners for Just Trade, Equal Exchange, Divine Chocolate and many other fair trade distributors/marketers and producer cooperatives. | in partnership with 
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| Partners for Just Trade
Partners for Just Trade, (PJT) is a non-profit, Christian organization that builds partnerships between artisans and farmers living in extreme poverty and conscientious consumers.We address root causes of poverty through education, solidarity, a commitment to trade justice and the sale of Fair Trade products. More than 15 artisan groups, with over 200 producers, now work with PJT, through our Peruvian Trade Partner called Bridge of Hope.In 2008, PJT began working with The REseau de LUtte contre la FAim (RELUFA), a Cameroonian organization who among other things, works with farmers whose land has been usurped by a multinational corporation.The fair wages the artisans and farmers receive enables them to afford food, shelter and medicine for their families, educate their children and reclaim personal dignity so they may assert their economic, political and social rights. Today our superior products are sold in over 20 retail stores across the country and through various other venues including PJT's own online store.
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Back Yard Beef
Back Yard Beef started in 1979 0n two acres with John Jr’s "Buttercup", a beautiful Jersey cow. She lived in our little barn and supplied us with more milk, cream, yogurt, butter, and ice cream than we could use and gladly shared with neighbors. Douglas followed with two black angus heifer calves from Gibbet Hill Angus Farm. Because Buttercup occupied the yard, the angus calves lived in Mr. Davis' pasture down the road from our home in Carlisle, MA… our first backyard. In 1984 Back Yard Beef moved to a peaceful farm in Alhambra, Il. Back Yard Beef’s goal is to provide the highest quality product available, produced in a wholesome and humane manner from our backyard to yours – because food is personal.
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| Heifer International
The Music Makers of Manchester United Methodist Church are sponsoring a booth from Heifer International, providing "Living Gifts" as an alternative way to honor someone this holiday season. Beautiful gift cards tell the recipient about the life transforming gift – perhaps a "knitting basket" for an aunt who knits, or fish for an uncle who loves to fish! Gifts of animals, trees, education and training lift entire communities out of poverty in a sustainable way. Recipients "pass on the gift" to other families when an offspring is born. Learn how it works with the fun, interactive "Explore the world of Heifer" feature. |
| Nuwait Herbals
Nuwati Herbals creates handmade teas, creams, balms, oils, bath salts, scrubs and more from nature’s own bounty. Rod Jackson began offering his creations to the public as Nuwati Herbals in 2002. Rod's Cherokee ancestors influenced his unique line of herbal products. Starting at the age of five, Rod’s Grandma would send him out to gather herbs, bark, roots, flowers, and leaves, from which she would make medicine. From her teaching, Rod learned the proper way to gather, so that there would always be plants for future generations. Nuwati products are handmade in the USA.
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| Holyland-Gifts
Holyland-Gifts is dedicated to supporting Christians in the Holy Land. Olivewood and Mother-of-Pearl gifts are handcrafted by a cooperative of ten Christian families living in Bethlehem, West Bank, Israel. Importation of these unique, handcrafted gift items from Bethlehem to Missouri accounted for more than 95% of the income provided to these craftsmen and their families from 2001-2007. Holyland-Gifts offers a variety of Olivewood and Mother-of-Pearl pieces including: nativities, ornaments, crosses, statues, rosaries, necklaces and jewelry.
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