Bree-Anne and Dane staffed Earth's General Store's booth at the Earth Day Festival at Fort Edmonton Park. I understand it went well and many people showed up at the festival.

The rain barrels are doing quite well (we sold out of our first shipment of 8 barrels). People are concerned about the lack of precipitation that we have had this winter and spring and the very low level of moisture in the ground.

On Friday we received and displayed our first order of fresh bread. We received a small tentative order from Prairie Mill Bread Company and it started to disappear as soon as Owen delivered it. In fact the Amores/Nobert family, who had visited the store earlier in the day, returned to pick up some bread.

Always adding new products to the store but some much more can be added. It takes so much time to find suppliers for local organic products. Next week we will have Sunny Boy cereal and some of their other products. These are produced in Camrose, Alberta - 74 kilometres.

The coolers and freezers are ordered and should be here next week. Then I will have to make sure the power works for where I want to install them.

Just to give people a little notice before this next change happens (I was a little too busy to do this right from the start when we opened at our new location) we will be charging for bags used in the store for customer purchases – this includes plastic bags used for bulk products (2 – 5 cents), paper bags used for cleaning and bulk products (5 cents),