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Farmers markets, once the typical way of selling produce for centuries, have again grown to become an important part of local community food shopping. They're the place to find fresh local produce, catch up with people from the community, share great food and take home seasonal treats that the supermarkets aren't necessarily going to be selling. And if you want to become part of a local farmers market, and sell your own homegrown or home produced food or household necessities, then you'll need to do some planning to ensure that your efforts are as effective, as they are lucrative. Steps 1 Make a checklist of everything that you will need, in order to be prepared.  This makes it easier to ensure that everything has been made or picked, and packed up to prevent last-minute panic. Being part of a farmers market means hard work. You will need to prepare produce leading up to the day, transport it safely and set up very early in the morning before custom...

Conscious consumers already know the difficulties involved with identifying ethical produce during the weekly grocery shop, but one shopping area that gets neglected is clothing. Although the most sustainable option for clothing is to buy second hand, from local thrift stores for example, or to host clothes swaps, there are still times when you need to buy new clothes, and supporting ethical brands sends a positive message to ethical companies and brands that employ sweatshop labor. That’s why we have put together this guide; to enable you to vote with your wallet and make conscious, ethical choices about what you wear against your skin. Sweatshop labor is a widely-known issue, as demonstrated by its ironic portrayal in the recent Simpsons/Banksy opening sequence, so we don’t think a detailed report on it is necessary here. However, because of its prevalence in the media, in some ways people have become complacent about the issue of poor working conditions and employee rights, and ju...