BigBarn has joined Wikaniko as a ‘distributor’ as I want to buy good eco products cheaper than I can in the supermarket. I also want to use their great website to promote BigBarn and borrow some of their eco content like Grow your Own.
After watching ‘End of the Line’ last night I am even more angry with the global food industry and see the only way forward is to shop locally as much as possible and cut out the supermarket. If I go I am always tempted to buy something I didn’t need and perhaps, promote a terrible chain of events. For instance, from ‘End of the Line’, when I buy or eat tuna, I promote factory fishing and may force a traditional African fisherman out of business, who may then try to emigrate to Europe in an attempt to support his family.
So Wikaniko helps me avoid the supermarket and order hundreds of ‘Green’ household and gardening products, and save money. If you are not impressed that I am joining, what some people wrongly describe, as a ‘pyramid scheme’, please comment. I was happy to pay the £48 to get the ‘wholesale’ price on all the products and if BigBarn does make any money it will be reinvested in to BigBarn and our Local Food Mission.
For more on Wikoniko and have a look at all the products, see our pages at http://www.bigbarneco.co.uk You can buy and test some products, join and get the wholesale price, or treat it as a business and make money as a distributor.
Tags: BigBarn, eco, eco products, green
I saw retirement as a life changing experience. I did not want to work for anyone and whatever I did needed to work round my new life. On the other hand, I have bags of energy and certainly wanted to find another outlet. I am passionate about health and green issues which to my mind are linked. There is now much discussion about the toxicity of ingredients in our every day household and personal products and believe me, I have read much on the subject. Here is a company encouraging us to go greener and making the process simpler. I am developing a business (thank goodness because I now have a huge dental bill to pay) and I am very happy to select products that are safer, many of which I use anyway but have found many that would not be stocked in supermarkets or even specialist shops.
I followed a four year professional training course in homeopathy, during which time I became aware of the underhand dealings and power of many of the large conglomerates, the food processors, the personal care and household cleaning providers and of course the practices of many supermarkets. It gives me great pleasure in being able to avoid the large retail outlets and to be able to support the smaller producers who are selling goods that I want to buy with the convenience of having goods delivered to my home.
Finding Wikaniko through a friend was fortunate. I am fussy about my foods and buy from farm shops and the local market, especially organic stalls. However, I still had to go to the supermarket for most of my household products which I resented. I tried a few products and joined Wikaniko as I am very mean and like to save money. I place a monthly order for me and for other friends which is delivery home . I introduced this to friends who live too far for me to order for them and many have now opened their own accounts and are doing the same as me. Guess what ………….I am earning money from it ! It works like an eco cooperative and it seems we share profits in some sort of way.
With so many people wanting to buy safer products for their homes and families, Wikaniko are proving to be a great success. Wikaniko source safer/greener/free trade/ recycled and innovative products and you know you are causing less damage to the planet and you.
“When I first heard about Wikaniko I loved the idea of being able to buy my eco friendly products at reasonable prices on line and have them delivered to the door. In most cases they are cheaper than my local shop. So I told a friend, who told a friend… and it all snowballed .. now I get paid for using the products and I’m helping the planet too.”
I’m all for not shopping at supermarkets so although I’ve not heard of Wikaniko before it’s surely better than the big conglomerates. We’re going to be showing the End of the Line at our Transition meeting next month – so I guess I’m going to get angry!