Last Updated: 14 December 2007.

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Shopping Here

Consider becoming one of our 'regulars'. You'll be supporting the whole operation, keep in touch with environmental events etc. and you'll get after-sales service on items like compost systems that you have queries about. Buy your bulk cleaning products here at the best (we think) prices in town. Our volunteers enjoy the friendly contact with our 'regulars'. Come again. And again!

Mail Order

If you're not a local and it's not convenient to get here by train, bus or car then Mail Order. We're over the road from the post office, so we'll get the postage quote first, then phone you back with the total, so you can pay by credit card over the phone. Otherwise we take cheques or money orders. It's certainly better for the environment - and usually your pocket - to let Oz Post do the driving if you know exactly what you want and the alternative is driving quite a way.

If you're not a local, and notice from our homepage that we're going to be doing a stall at a fair or festival near you, buy it over the phone and we'll bring it to the fair for you to collect, a way to collect pre-paid goods without any postage costs.

Our Shop

We started off small of course, back in 2001, with only about a dozen items on sale. We always had plenty of free up to date information on sustainable living - tips on using less power and water, gardening without polluting the environment, attracting birds and butterflies and frogs to your garden etc. Even though we now stock around 700 products, we're proud that we've kept around 7 square metres for our display racks, with hundreds of excellent free brochures, pamphlets and flyers.

Every new product or line has been the subject of some pretty 'robust' discussions at committee meetings on the pros and cons - weighing up factors like what it's made of, how much environmental damage might have been done in its production, how far it's travelled to get here, how environmentally useful it is, whether we can find out that the workers who made the product were paid properly, whether we think people will actually buy it (there's always spirited speculation about this question!) and how much money it will make us. Notice that this factor is definitely last. We've even been known to stock items on which we make zero profit, just to show folks that they exist and encourage them to use them.)

We've come to the conclusion that there's no 'perfect' product - ie five stars on every criteria, but most of ours come pretty close we think! We've had to turn away quite a few people who've wanted to sell their product through our shop on the grounds that it didn't stack up well enough on the above questions.

From 2004-2005 takings doubled, so we must be doing something right! Introducing EFTPOS/credit card facility in 2005 - with a very favourable rate from Bendigo Bank - has helped. We even have the manual 'swiper' on board at our market stalls (credit card only).

Many Thanks to all of our Customers.