Eco Friendly Basket

Looking to up your sustainability game and look good while doing it? Has Room 7 got the basket for you! We have compiled an assortment of useful items for the low-waste, crunchy-adjacent household.

For the kitchen we have: two rolls of handmade flannel unpaper towels, beeswax food wraps, cotton hand towels, reusable dish cloths, a selection of reusable snack bags, and a beautiful red linen wrap apron. Laundry needs? A pack of sensitive skin Dropps detergent pods will get your clothes clean, and a 4 pack of wool dryer balls will help get them dry more efficiently. In the bath, enjoy a soothing soak courtesy of an herbal bath salt blend, try out the Trader Joe's shampoo bar, and clean off with a bar of classic peppermint Dr. Bronner's castile soap. Or try the Dr. Bronner's as an all purpose cleaner, boosted by a pack of Dropp's oxy-clean pods. For a pick me up, brew up a cup of adaptogen packed Rasa (choose from a trio of sampler sized flavors) which you can enjoy in a beautiful ceramic travel mug. Or keep it simple with water in a classic narrow mouth Nalgene, packed to go in a handmade up-cycled linen purse. For more miscellaneous eco needs, we've included a set of 4oz glass canning jars (perfect for spice blends, or gifts! No homestead is complete without canning jars at every turn), a set of pure beeswax small taper candles, and a pair of beautiful hand-marbled linen pieces which could be used as décor or reusable wrapping "paper".

Anchoring the basket and really solidifying your crunchy street cred is a dual-compartment compost tumbler, the perfect size to tuck into a side yard and turn food scraps and yard waste into a potent soil amendment for your garden. New to composting or want to brush up on best practices? We've included a book all about how (and why!) to compost. All this packaged in a beautiful woven basket, just the right size for corralling throw blankets, stuffed animals, or your latest crafting project.

(If home compost is not accessible for you, but you'd like the rest of the basket contents, a little bird has told us that the school garden would likely be able to put the tumbler to use. It produces usable compost significantly faster than the traditional three pile method, and students would be able to make and use compost within the same school year!)