Featured Products for August

Kitchen Compost Pail

Do you compost? Our stainless steel compost pail is a stylish way to collect your food scraps for the compost pile or bin. Beautiful enough to leave on the kitchen counter. Easy to carry and clean. Carbon filters in lid contain odors. Holds about a gallon. $33.50 Learn more »

Home Composting Made Easy

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for composting in your own backyard. Instead of overburdening your local landfill, learn how to turn kitchen scraps, yard trimmings and paper scraps into "black gold" for your lawn and garden. $2.95 Learn more »

Rain Barrels

Garden thirsty? Harvest the rain to water your garden and plants. Save money on water bills while helping to protect your local rivers and aquifers. Storing rain water keeps storm run off from overloading your community's storm drains. Using rain water instead of pumped well water or treated municipal water keeps salts out of your garden and keeps water in aquifers and reservoirs for other uses. In stock again after a dry spell (we sold out earlier in the year), our rain barrels are re-used food-grade plastic barrels. $85 Learn more »

NatureMill Indoor / Outdoor Electric Composter

Looking for the fastest, easiest and most fool-proof method to turn kitchen waste into rich compost? Try a NatureMill Plus. We've never seen a composter work as quickly and reliably as the new NatureMills. This year's models (Plus, Pro and Pet Friendly) are a huge advance over last year's. The NatureMill Plus composts up to 120 pounds of food waste per month--and this isn't just marketing hype. It really does work. You can use it indoors or outdoors throughout the year, even in rain, sleet or snow. These NatureMills are giving our worms bins a run for their money for year-round composting! Learn more »

Can O Worms

For those more inclined to compost biologically than mechanically (see NatureMills above), we offer vermiculture. Conveniently compost your kitchen scraps all year round with the help of hundreds of hungry red wigglers. Now is the perfect time to start a worm colony. By the time cold weather comes you'll have a healthy population built up and ready for winter! Plus, next spring you'll have a nice supply of worm castings, the very best fertilizer you can make. Learn more »

Worm Castings

Have you tried worm castings on your houseplants or container garden? If you have, you know what an incredible treat these are for potted plants! For maintaining plant health and vigor naturally, nothing beats worm castings. Learn more »

Stainless Steel Water Bottles

Why drink bottled water? Because you can refill your own reusable bottle! We carry a full line of stainless steel water bottles. They are rugged, reliable and virtually indestructible. Our one liter size with a plastic sport top is $17.95. Learn more »

New Products

Here's what's new in our store for June 2008:

• AccuLoop NiMH rechargeable batteries
  AccuLoop batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times. But unlike other brands of NiMH batteries they keep most of their capacity over time. AccuLoop batteries come fully charged, ready to use, and lose only 2% of their capacity every month.
  
  
• AccuManager 20 Battery Charger
  Rapidly and efficiently charge rechargeable AA, AAA, C, D, and 9V batteries. You can mix and match battery chemistries -- this unit continuously monitors, conditions and maintains the quality and durability of your NiMH, NiCD, or RAM Rechargeable Batteries. Extend battery life to the maximum and provide optimal performance. You can charge one to four AA, AAA, C, or D rechargeable batteries independently or together, and also charge two 9V NiMH or NiCD rechargeable batteries at the same time. Fully recharges high capacity batteries.
  

New Products

Here's what's new in our store and on our web site for May 2008:

• Heirloom Organic Seeds
  Come to our store for a selection of heirloom organic vegetable seeds from Fedco. We sell open-pollinated varieties (not hybrids) so you can save your own seed from year to year.
  
  
• Grow-an-Herb
  Grow your own herbs from seed, indoors or outdoors. A great project for kids or cooks. Easy to grow, guaranteed!
  
  
• Grow-a-Tree
  There is something magical about growing your trees from seed. Choose from a variety of hardwood species including white birch, american elm, sugar maple and apple.

New Products: Bokashi and more!

Here are some new products you can find on our web site:

• Bokashi
  With Bokashi, you can convert kitchen scraps into an organic compost soil conditioner through a process of fermenting and pickling. Takes less time than conventional composting methods and produces no odors. Can even compost meat scraps!
  
• Brill Razorcut 38 Push Reel Mower
  The Brill Razorcut 38 Push Reel Mower is a beautifully designed people-powered mower. Using the Brill contact free cutting technique, the blades are precision sharpened to within a hundreth of a millimetre, leaving a lawn cut as if with scissors.
  
• SafePaint Wall Milk Paint
  SafePaint is Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company's new line of organic milk paint for use on walls. Like their regular milk paint, SafePaint is environmentally safe and non-toxic.

New Products: JoraComposters, Push Lawn Mowers, & more!

We are continuing to bring in new products, with our focus now on spring. Yes, it's really coming! Here are the new products you can find now on our web site:

• JoraComposters
  We finally have an answer for those of you who want to compost outdoors all winter long here in Maine! The JK 125 Insulated Composter (and its larger sibling, the JK 270) were designed in Sweden to enable composting all year long, even in the winter of a cold climate. It has two separate compartments for composting. While one is fully composting, you fill the second compartment. By the time you've filled the second compartment ,the first will be ready to empty and add to your garden or green space. Because of the insulation and high heat achieved during decomposition, meat and fish can also be successfully composted in the JoraComposter.
  
• Sunlawn Push Reel Mower
  Mow your lawn quietly, without any gasoline, and give yourself some exercise as well. The Sunlawn LMM-40 Push Reel Mower is one of Sunlawn's lightest, quietest and easiest to maneuver mowers. A perfect way to sustainably care for your lawn.
  
• Neuton Battery-Powered Lawn Mower
  If you have a small lawn, why hassle with a gas mower? Enjoy a whole new experience with the battery-powered Neuton Mower. No hard pull-starts, no gas or oil, and no fumes or loud noise.

New Products: BioBricks, NatureMills, and more!

It's not easy being green when you run a retail store. We are constantly evaluating product ideas. It's a time-intensive process to do the research to find products that really are practical and really do help save the planet. But we've been hard at work tackling our backlog of hundreds of product ideas and customer requests from our first year of operations.

We now have more than a dozen new products on our web site, including:

• BioBricks
  Heat your home with clean and efficient compressed sawdust bricks. (Limit 4 per customer due to limited supply.)
  
• Night Logs
  Keep your wood stove going all night with a compressed sawdust log--more than twice the density and half the moisture content of cord wood. (Limit 2 per customer due to limited supply.)
  
• Power Logs
  Enjoy a clean-burning, environmentally-friendly fire in your fireplace, without the hassles of cord wood. (Limit 3 per customer due to limited supply.)
  
• The Happy Farmer Bokashi Ktichen Composter
  Anaerobically "compost" meat scraps indoors without odors.
  
• NatureMill Plus Indoor / Outdoor Composter
  Plug in this electric composter to compost up to 120 pounds of food waste per month (including meat scraps) quickly and efficiently all year round, indoors or out.
  
• NatureMill Pet Friendly Composter
  Placed on a deck or back porch, this electric composter can handle up to 120 pounds of food and pet waste per month.
  
• NatureMill Pro Indoor/Outdoor Composter
  Choose a heavy-duty electric composter with stainless steel components for continuous duty in a large family or small cafe. (AVAILABLE IN MARCH)
  
• Doggie Dooley Pet Waste Composter
  When warmer weather arrives, plan to install one of these in-ground composting systems to safely and conveniently eliminate pet waste.