Vermont Diaper Company Happenings…          June 2008

Happy Summer!

Here in Vermont our garden is loaded with every good thing. If it is a veggie you can name, we are growing it! In the early evening we walk through an enormous meadow on the trail to our garden patch, watching red winged blackbird males fiercely defending their nests in the tall, fragrant grasses. Last weekend, we watched a mama snapping turtle plodding through our potato patch to lay her beautiful, smooth, round eggs in the warm soil. (We will let you know when they hatch!)

Summer in the Green Mountains means gardening, watching the water of the North Branch of the cold Winooski River flow over multicolored stone, and soaking in the sun we have waited all long, dark Winter to enjoy ….We do all of this (and much more) alongside our work as Vermont Diaper Company. We are a small family business, slowly growing and reaching out to those families who want to participate in a sustainable and strong future by choosing our Vermont made, organic cloth diapers.

This Spring we had a chance to table at the Saratoga Environmental Expo in New York state. And wow did we get some funny and incredulous looks! “Cloth diapers? They still MAKE those?” Yes, we do. And folks use them and wash them and hang them in the sun and with every washing and drying families across our country make a difference.

In peace,
The Pruitt Family
Vermont Diaper Company