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It has been a crazy time to build a Fair Trade enterprise. The pandemic brought so many changes, heaped on top of the challenge of understanding this new business. As a result, two and a half years in, I feel very much like a newbie. The past year has been challenging and ever-changing, but it has offered so many gifts. Here are some of...

“As consumers we have so much power to change the world by just being careful in what we buy.”  – Emma Watson, actor and ethical shopping advocate Hermione Grainger is right. We can vote with our dollars for the kind of world we want and for the things we want to support. Saturday May 8 is World Fair Trade Day. It’s the day that...

“How was Nepal?” people ask me. “Wonderful,” I say, knowing that my life will never be quite the same. Before I bought Didi Bahini last summer, I couldn’t have found Nepal on a map. I wanted to do good by supporting Fair Trade initiatives, and when I met Jane Gragtmans and heard about her company, I knew that buying Didi Bahini was right for...