Did you know that spending $100 at your neighborhood’s independent businesses creates $68 in additional local economic activity, while spending $100 at a chain produces only $43 worth of local impact? What other benefits are there to buying locally?

Are you always searching for natural products? Worried about typical natural care products and the health effects they can have on you and your baby? Well worry no more!

Butterfly Weed Herbals are natural products, born as an exploration of the healing ways of plants, and the traditional art of Herbalism. These products are hand made using traditional methods of herbal extraction and pure natural ingredients. Read on to hear Denise’s story of how these products came to be!

As vintage looks, urban gipsy and exposing raw materials in homes is IN now, people are buying endless amounts of accessories and furniture made of wood. But do you know where that wood comes from, how it was harvested, what is the carbon footprint and do loggers receive a fair wage and treatment? This video makes you think twice before you pick that piece at a major outlet store…

Money spent at locally-owned businesses goes around longer in the local economy as local business people pay for all kinds of local services, spend their profits and pay taxes locally. Purchasing locally helps grow other businesses and the Toronto tax base.