Ten Thousand Villages

So, uh, for the past, well, I would say 17 years, I was primarily going to music festivals, church fairs, uh, bird clubs and, and other places where I could tell the story and, and that was great.

But as we look to the future and wanting to create a model that is sustainable for the long run and create more opportunities for our artisan partners, we've really had to look to what is a possibility for our wholesale marketing? What's a possibility for things that can do well online that don't require these very labor-intensive, uh, driving one day to a music festival, hanging out for five days, and then coming home? So we've now been working with fair trade stores like Ten Thousand Villages, um, including the store here in Mechanicsburg.

Uh, we've been selling to an increasing number of stores in the Wild Birds Unlimited chain, and again, uh, there are owners of three different stores, uh, in this area that have been our customers and we're very grateful to them for bringing our products to the people in this area.

So we started doing Amazon birds and I thought, "You know, this would be a great way to try to educate people about the Amazon." But we found out very quickly that some people would say, "You know, this is a beautiful toucan.

I believe it's called Erin's Books.

You have a great store that sells a lot of different knick-knacks and items from around the world that used to be, I believe, associated with Ten Thousand Villages.

Oh, okay.

And for those who are not familiar, Ten Thousand Villages would be trying to support rural villages in underdeveloped portions of the world by directly selling handmade crafts from there.

Exactly.

So that, there's one of those stores in Lititz.