This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Ramblers Way. All opinions are 100% mine.

It’s a fairly well known phenomenon – large ‘box stores’ building on the outskirts of towns, driving consumer traffic away from downtown areas and city cores where many ‘mom and pop’ establishments once flourished.  Many of these smaller businesses have already closed in cities both large and small.  Even Edmonton, our city of choice, suffers from the ‘big box store’ on the outskirts of town problem.  There are still office towers downtown and apartment buildings but little else.  The city has been trying to revitalize the core, but it still struggles.  Our city has also seen many jobs outsourced to foreign countries.  My step-father used to work in a call center that employed some 2,000 people before those jobs were shipped overseas.

We live in Canada, but seeing the label Made in America, is almost like seeing Made in Canada (an even rarer occurrence.)  I feel like Americans are our brothers and sisters to the south.

Ramblers Way Farm is one of the few companies dedicated to keeping things domestic – not only do they source all of the wool they make their clothing with domestically, but they manufacture in small towns, and even have their corporate office in a vintage building they’ve restored in a small town in Maine.  They are truly committed to keeping things real and local and have even achieved Gold Lead Certification levels for environmental standards.

I really appreciate their heart for local industry and community, it shows that they truly care for more than the bottom line.