04/23/2026
Earth Day
We spend so much time in homes where things have been used and lived with for years.
We carefully take a home apart, trying to understand the stories — who lived there and what their life was like.
The dining table that held daily meals.
Kitchen pieces with years of use and care.
Clothes kept and repaired, not because they were new, but because they were appreciated.
Most of it still has a place with future generations.
The secondary market is just that — things moving from one home to another, continuing on in a different setting, with a different story.
“I bought this at that estate sale in Sebastopol — the one filled with pottery.”
There’s something comforting in that.
Something that feels like a life continuing.
Our goal in this work is simple — to throw away as little as possible.
When something goes into our dump trailer, it’s truly at the end of its life. Anything remotely usable gets set aside, given away at the sale, or brought back to our own free table. We donate, we recycle, and we take the extra time to move things through the right channels whenever we can.
It’s more work this way, but it’s the only way we know how to run our business.
And something to think about —
it takes around 700 gallons of water to make a single cotton t-shirt.
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Green & Cate
