COMMUNITY SUPPORTIVE GROCERY (CSG) Phase I: The Yellow Shelf Project
May Your Good Looks (and Clean Dwelling) Support Your Community!

Create Plenty is organizing local producers of alternative body care and household products and marketing and distributing them locally in returnable, reusable or reused containers. Create Plenty is currently visiting two up and coming outdoor markets, the Cully Collective Market and the Boise-Eliot Market, to sell personal care and house cleaning products made by local producers. In September, Create Plenty will launch the initial stage of their Community Supportive Grocery - the Yellow Shelf Project - to sell these products in partnering retail locations throughout Portland.

-See schedule of locations on our homepage.
-See a list of our producers, product locations + products available.

Note: We will take food grade squeeze bottles and stick deodorant containers. Do you have several glass jars (holding up to 2 cups of liquid) with lids? Please email us to arrange for delivery and to make sure we are still accepting jars. Baby jars also welcome!

Ways to get involved now:

•Sell your stuff here! Do you have a personal care or home cleaning product you make and sell (or want to sell)? Your product must be made locally and in packaging that is returnable, or refillable.

•Hire us! If you'd like to have us organize a demonstration at an event or at your house, choose one from the list below and contact us for scheduling. We can make your choice of personal care or home cleaning products for a group of 5 or more.

•Host us! Want to host a Create Plenty CSG shelf in your retail store? This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

•Supply Us! If you are a local supplier of essential oils, dried flowers and herbs and/or other ingredients commonly found in home made products, contact us for sponsorship opportunities.

•Replicate Us! Want a CSG or in your town? This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

•Create with us! We will be making products for sale around town once our products are receiving regular distribution. You and your friends can help us out, learn how to make it yourself, and take some home.

Production Demonstration Descriptions

CLEANING POLITELY
Pardon me, but is that a synthetic chemical you are using to clean your kitchen sink? If only Mother Earth could advocate for the cleaning products she'd rather have us use. Join us for a jovial hands-on session of creamy cleanser, all purpose surface cleanser spray, laundry detergent and other tips using ingredients with which you might also bake a cake or dress a salad.

PITS n' PEARLY WHITES
Deodorant and Toothpaste, often the final frontier in the journey toward a packaging- free hygiene regimen. Come experiment with some tried and true homemade deodorants and toothpastes to suit. Bring your empty solid deodorant container to refill!

GOURMET FACE CARE
Make your own face care products, eliminate the packaging and miles your scrubs must travel, while you support a great innovative organization. This is what is called an active facial. Make and apply right away. You will walk away with a glowing face and enough to do it again a few more times at home.

MAKE YOUR OWN 'POO
Come make your own shampoos, conditioners and learn the tricks of the new trade.

BATH BUFFET
Make lotions and bath products to suit any mood. Come learn how for gifting and a treat for you! Cost: $15 for materials plus suggested $5-25 donation.