Vote for American Made
Show support for made in America products by joining in on Martha Stewart’s American Made awards. You can vote for your favorite through September 24. One vote per day, per person.
There are jams, jellies, ice creams, tools, textiles and more handmade products by real people with a penchant for their crafts. We call it the new economy: do what you know how and make a living doing it.
It never ceases to amaze how many talented people there are crafting products in their sheds, garages, barns and basements. It’s this kind of honest skill set that built our country and can rebuild it again.
Tuli Fisher (picture above) forging handmade garden tools in his Montana barn.
Melanie and Justin McKenney making delightful Vegetabowls in New York.
Miles Thomas bottling bitters in Washington.
Get out the vote for for products made in America by clicking the link below before September 24.
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NPR tells the story of a small Ohio River potter in East Liverpool famous for their plain white coffee mugs – the kind of mugs you would expect to sip from in your favorite diner.
Weeks from closing down and feeling the pressure from cheap Chinese knockoffs, the American Mug and Stein Company thought their days were over until Starbucks placed an order for 20,000 mugs.
They called the mug “Indivisible”. It sells for $10
The Starbuck’s contract continues and American Mug has had to hire potters to fill their orders. The NPR story ends with…
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the contract with American Mug and Stein is only the beginning.
“There are hundreds of East Liverpools around the country today,” he says. “These towns have been left for dead. And even though it’s more expensive to manufacture this mug in the U.S. than it would be in China or Korea or Mexico, this is what we need to do.”
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Well, since their coffee comes from all over the planet….but wait, Starbucks does employ a few hundred thousand people, so we can’t leave them out of the lineup of Made in America companies, can we?
Something that IS a 100-percent made in America is the Starbucks Indivisible wristband – on sale now to support “large scale U.S. manufacturing,” according to their website.
Your $5 wristband purchase is a donation to the Create Jobs for USA Fund that supplies financing to community businesses. Starbucks put up the first 5 million, the rest of the fund will come from the wristband purchases by us.
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