Traveling to farmers markets, soap making conferences, herb or music festivals and craft shows over the years has led to us meeting and sharing and bartering with some really great folks that we want to share with you through the links below. Please enjoy their websites and indulge in their great products. |
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| Oryana Natural Foods Coop Our favorite place for fine food in Northern Michigan, fresh produce, cider, maple syrup, honey, herbal skin care and other items from local farmers. An onsite soy dairy produces fresh soymilk, tofu, and tempeh each week. Organic coffees, herbs, teas, meats, grains, olive oils, wine and more from the worlds best organic and natural producers. | |
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| Baver Herbs - Northern Michigan source for Herb Plants, Perenniels, Native Plants and Much More! The Baver Farm is available to host your special outdoor event, such as: wedding (or other large event), garden club, field trip (student or adult), class, seminar, program, demonstration, etc. For larger events, please see the Wedding & Event Facilities page. For all events, please contact us. | |
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| Clothing Matters - Sustainable and Organic textile clothing choices Since 1996, we have been practicing the process of connecting a diverse, discerning and deserving clientele with the finest apparel options available for men, women and children. We are proud to be a destination for people who travel from near and far to shop our world class collection of highest quality, sustainably manufactured apparel. Store in Grand Rapids MI, available online. | |
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| Manistee Crossings, Lodging Discounts When traveling here from all points south of us by road, about 35 minutes before you get here in Mesick Michigan. | |
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| By the Light of Day Tea Company- Leelanau MI It is By the Light of Day’s sincere intention that you may enjoy superb health, inner peace, joy, and enlightenment. We hope that you will discover, and hopefully learn to cherish, the ancient ritual of having a “spot of tea.” For us, tea is more than a life-enriching beverage…it is a representation of the conscious choice to live simply, and to live each day with integrity. To us, integrity means ensuring the highest quality of tea for you and life for those who bring it to us. | |
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| Higher Grounds Trading Co. - Fair Trade Freshly Roasted Organic Coffee Higher Grounds Trading Co. is a mission-driven company dedicated to offering you the highest-quality handcrafted 100% fair trade, organic, and shade-grown coffees from around the world. | |
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| Seed and Light International - Organic and Open Pollenated Seed for Sustainability of Man Seed and Light International (SLI) provides help to people in need around the world. Help that restores hope and dignity. SLI endeavors to fulfill this vision primarily through the means of sustainable gardening programs and alternative technologies.Help, Hope & Dignity - The plight of many of the word's poor has reduced them to a miserable state of hopelessness, despair and dependency. SLI works to help people break out of this destructive pattern of life through creative lifetime solutions and not just short-term relief. SLI programs and project encourage community self-sufficiency and restore hope and dignity. | |
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| Hand Blended Teas, Tonics, and Herbal Beverages Anahata Balance offers a wide range of teas, herbal tonics, and therpeutic remedies for your health and healing. High end bulk organic teas, kombucha tea, bulk essential oils, dosha teas. See our web site store for complete listings. | |
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| Grocers Daughter World Class Chocolate Welcome to Grocer's Daughter Chocolate. I use organic cream, locally grown organic fruit, my homegrown herbs, high quality nuts and seeds and primarily premium high cocoa content Rainforest Alliance certified chocolate. | |
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| Taste the Local Difference - Northwest Michigan Farm Listings Taste the Local Difference is part of the Michigan Land Use Institute's Entrepreneurial Agriculture Project, which works to grow jobs, save farmland, and build healthier communities with food that’s thousands of miles fresher. | |
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| 100% GLUTEN FREE, WHEAT FREE WEBSITE Soap Making School - Now offering class dates for 2008! Our full day long fast start intensive Home Soap Making Business School is starting another season! Come and learn all about making hundreds of soaps per day with ease while preparing to launch your new home soap making business.Learn about designing recipes, blending essential oils, and some great herbs to use in your soap and herbal skin care products. TO ORDER BY PHONE CALL 1-231-352-9600 or E-Mail Us at: creationsoap@boone.net Store Hours at the Farm Monday-Friday 10-5, Saturday and Sunday by appointment call 231-352-9600 so we can make sure to be there for you when you come. Benefit from over 20 years experience selecting the finest essential oils and herbs for soapmaking and aromatherapy synergies from around the globe. In pursuit of a naturally beautiful body, please indulge yourself in my personal selection of high quality botanical essential oils, aroma soaps, tanning lotions, tanning creams, herb bath teas and aromatherapy blends. This simple indulgence with herbs is my lifelong quest about how to obtain Pure Beauty for Skin, Hair and Spirit. These products are designed from a holistic and herbal education. Knowledge developed from 20 years experience making natural herbal soap, shampoo bars and skincare from natural botanical oils for my livelihood and health. I have assembled to present here a collection of Premium Aromatherapy Oils and Natural Ingredients for making the most natural and highest quality botanical based herbal soaps, shampoo, toiletries, natural perfumes and scents possible. These essential oils may be used for scents, aroma synergies, in diffusers, soapmaking recipes, in glycerin base or natural hair care. These world class steam distilled essential oils of herbs have several therapeutic benefits when blending synergies for aromatherapy or herbal skin care and toiletries. Our Natural Aromatherapy soaps are delicously scented with pure essential oils and herbs. Essential oils of Tea tree, Lavender, Rosemary, Sweet Orange, Peppermint and others alone and in aroma blends provide excellent herbal benefits skin care. These aromatic products also contain specialty herbal ingredients like Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Evening Primrose Oil, Pomace Olive Oil, Lavender. Many of these essential oils may be effective treatments for Acne, Rosacea and other skin maladies. Handmade Soaps or shampoo bars also make wonderful gifts and suggest uses with other Aromatherapy bath salts and glycerin herb soaps as Gift Ideas! Check out our full selection of Soapmaking supplies for creating your own skin or hair care products as great gift ideas. you will find everything from coconut oil and palm oil to jojoba oil, herbs and herbal remedies for optimum health. Creation's wholesale soapmaking supplies and wholesale essential oils provide an extensive variety to select from for making your own skin and hair care products with natural perfume and scents for pure beauty. Creation Soap: noun - Soap- pronounced-"kree-ashun soap" The original hand made soap with herbs in North America. An all natural and botanical handmade herbal soap produced by Anna Carter Sangemino since 1978 beginning in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Scented with Pure essential oils for natural fragrance. Anna's hand made soap is often used for specific skin care solutions, types include dry skin mositurizing, shampoo body, poison ivy, psoriasis, ecxema, acne, oily skin, sensitive skin. Soap using God's Best botanicals from the point of Creation including Botanical Oils, essential oils, herbs, and Love. Handmade Soap: noun - Hand made soap - A hand crafted cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils, fats, and essential oils. Best Example: Creation Soap |