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Park + Vine

November 11, 2007 By pgarry

Have you been to the Gateway Quarter yet? Vine Street just north of Central Parkway. Some wonderful new stores there, rehabbed apartments for Art Academy students, a brand new energy.

I’ve only been to one of the new and unique stores – Park + Vine, which hosted a meeting of EarthSave, a great vegetarian / vegan group I often attend, a couple of weeks ago.

The store calls itself ‘a green general store – where being green is easy’. And indeed it is! I mostly shop in health food / natural foods places, but still found a number of items I hadn’t seen before. And there’s a wide array – groceries, cleaning products, clothes, health and beauty items.

The store feels great – wonderful sustainable bamboo flooring, lots of light, good energy throughout.

My favorite purchase was a fair trade, sustainably made broom from Thailand. And you can guess what actually made me buy it – yep, there was a pattern in green woven into the broom. It is so beautiful! I really enjoyed putting the old broom in the garage, and hanging this one in the pantry.

When the friend of mine who cleans the house showed up a few days later, her question was ‘Are we really going to use this to sweep?’ And indeed we are. To me, beauty and sustainability belong together – and were so easy to find at Park + Vine!

Filed Under: Nature / The Environment, Reviews: Books, Plays, Events, Etc.

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