Buy Local, Dress In Season

Just like a garden, the store has a cycle and four seasons. As you might have guessed, right now we're in one of two SALE seasons: clearing out, cleaning up and making room for new Spring finds. Like little seeds waiting for the first spring rainfall, topics for the blog are incubating so they'll be ready to show themselves with the arrival of our first Spring '10 shipment.

OK, hold up, the records starting to skip, put on the brakes, lift the needle...can you tell we're reading a book about gardening and LOVING IT! In between helping customers find their size amongst the sale items and trying to come up with post topics, all we've been talking about are vegetables.

We're NOT going to start reviewing books, just recommending them. So here's our first:


Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver is all about buying locally raised food, eating in season, and her family's life on their small Appalachian farm. Besides motivating us to change the way we eat, it could just be the inspiration for the store's new motto - "Buy Local, Dress In Season".