As I browse around the Internet and through newspapers, I enjoy leaning about small and home business ventures that feature success.  Some of these are very unique and bring great enjoyment to the owners.
 Mountain Ash Design (www.mountainashdesign.com) in Vermont (USA) features the reuse of old clothes.  (In modern verbage, we might call it “going green,” because owner Sarah O. Green …no pun intended…is redesigning and recycling old clothing and creating unique items from the fabric.)
 Using “good” old fabric again and again stems back to the pioneers who didn’t have nearby stores with new fabric.  Also, usually their budgets didn’t allow for …read more

Creative thinking lies at the root of many unique home businesses.  Who would think one could evolve from composting?
 Recently I learned about Megan Kolbay in Vermont (USA), who has developed a business toting her compost and that of others to a community compost collection point or pile.  Apparently first one friend, then another offered to pay Megan to take their compost to the pile, down a dirt road, when she took hers.
 This gave Megan the idea there might be a market for this service.  See…something we’ve mentioned before….find an need and fill it.
 This concept has grown into Earthgirl Composting, Megan’s …read more