PROJECT SHOPPE
Introducing Village Project’s new retail store
Extended Spring Hours (Beginning April 1st):
Monday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Thursday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm (new!)
Have some free time in your schedule? Do you enjoy retail shopping or managing a store? If so, perhaps you’d be interested in working a shift at Project Shoppe. We are looking for volunteers to help staff our store. Grab a friend, welcome shoppers and provide guests with a better understanding of our organization and unique gifts and specialty food items.
Shifts are in two-hour increments and help is needed during all business hours. Please call the office at (440) 348-9401, or stop by if interested.
Already a volunteer? Click here to sign up for a shift!
Project Shoppe Provides An Income Stream Features Locally Sourced Products Enables Us To Feed More Clients
Project Shoppe was born out of the need to provide our organization with an income stream as well as the need to increase community awareness, (ultimately increasing the number of meals and clients we can serve).
Fun facts: our Shoppe’s grand opening on September 24, 2010 marks the 8th anniversary of Village Project’s inception as well as the 5th anniversary of moving into our current building space!
Immunity Broth and Meals-To-Go Are Here!
Stop by and pick up a quick and healthy option for dinner tonight! Village Project entrees are prepared right in our own kitchen and are packaged individually. Our immunity broth is made with fresh herbs and vegetables–a great base for your next soup and a nourishing option for clients who may have a loss of appetite due to the effects of treatment.
A selection of our delicious entrees will change weekly and are available for $9 each. Immunity broth is available in 32 oz. pouches for $4 per bag. Meals and broth can be used immediately or frozen for future use!
Learn The Story Behind Our Products
The shop features unique, specialty food and gift items. We support locally-sourced, all-natural products and offer some of our own homemade selections. We are proud to offer Village Project food that uses fresh, organic ingredients, some harvested directly from our own organic garden.
In addition to the items sourced from local vendors, Project Shoppe will also feature some Village Project favorites, such as our homemade:
- granola
- herbed salts
- dog biscuits
- specialty vinegars
- Village Project merchandise
Gourmet Firehouse Salsa is owned by Angelo Tetorakis, who makes and sells his famous mango and pineapple salsas.
The journey began while Angelo, a now retired firefighter, was making salsa for his co-workers one evening at the firehouse. The recipe slowly evolved as the other firemen told Angelo how to improve its taste, and eventually the first of his famous recipes emerged.
All of Firehouse Salsa’s ingredients are free of additives, preservatives, and fillers, and include all natural fruit, peppers, and spices. They are delicious on crackers, served with cheese, or used in your everyday cooking.
Stop in and taste for yourself!
All of Hazelmade’s products are made by Susan Hazel Rich in Kent, Ohio. From her home, she designs greeting cards, notepads, tea towels, little notes, and pocket journals.
The company began as a way for Susan to branch out from her day job as a graphic designer, and has continued to grow ever since. She now has an online shop, and her products are sold in various retail stores around the U.S.
We’re very excited to feature Hazelmade in our store. Be sure to stop in and check out all of her beautiful products!
We are proud to carry these locally made, Furbish & Fire Candles in our shoppe!
Furbish and Fire Candle Co. is owned by Michelle Liller and operates out of Avon Lake, Ohio. Michelle is a mother of two young girls, and once they went off to school, she decided to express her creativity by making high-quality candles with personalized labels.
All Furbish and Fire candles are made with pure ingredients such as all natural soy wax, lead-free wicks, and cotton. They use no paraffin, dyes, pesticides, herbicides, or preservatives.
They strive to be environmentally conscious, innovatively using recycled wine bottles as candle holders.
Stop in and see all the different candles and scents we carry.
SIMPLY MADE,
DELIGHTFULLY DIFFERENT!
Kombucha is a lightly fermented probiotic tea, slightly sweet, slightly sour. It may help detoxify the body with good gut health bacteria and energize the body. Drinking kombucha may aid digestion, immune support and detoxification.
Snowmon’s Kombucha is made locally in Fairview Park, Ohio and is available at BayArts and Crocker Park’s Farmers Markets in addition to Village Project.
*Please note: Product may contain trace amounts of alcohol due to natural fermentation, less than .5%. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Modern Sprout was desperate for a fool-proof way to cultivate healthy herbs, vegetables, and flowers, yet maintain their self-esteem. They wanted a victory garden, not planters full of defeat.
After researching non-traditional options, they found hydroponics. A method of cultivation that’s clean, self-maintaining, and yields fantastic results, hydroponics immediately seemed perfect for busy people like them.
But every kit they tried was expensive, difficult to set up, and more homely than homey. They were unimpressed with their options, so they planted the seeds for Modern Sprout. Now they provide planters that are simple, stylish, and fertile with success.
Just add water.
Love Your Melon is an apparel brand dedicated to giving a hat to every child battling cancer and supporting the fight against pediatric cancer.
Love Your Melon products are here – and just in time for the cold! We have the new Pom Beanies, Beanies, Headbands and Infinity Scarves…
All Love Your Melon products are made in the United States of America. The company is passionate about producing high-quality products, creating jobs here in our country and emphasizing its value of community. The knit caps are manufactured in the United States, using 100% cotton that is soft and comfortable.
Join the LYM story and help fight Pediatric Cancer AND Village Project with your purchase… that’s a double whammy!
Founded by Jess Ekstrom out of Raleigh, North Carolina, Headbands of Hope is an apparel line of headbands for ladies and kids designed to support children with cancer.
Inspired by a summer internship at a wish-granting organization, Jesse saw that a lot of kids loved to wear headbands after losing their hair to chemotherapy. She did a google search and realized that there were no businesses donating headbands to kids with cancer, only wigs and hats. Jess started Headbands of Hope out of her dorm room in college with two headbands, her computer, and a burning passion to help these kids (and a lot of coffee).
Today, Headbands of Hope is carried in thousands of stores across the world. They’ve been featured on the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Vanity Fair, Seventeen Magazine, and even supported by celebrities like Lea Michele, Lauren Conrad, Kelsea Ballerini, Lili Reinhart and more.
But more importantly, Headbands of Hope has donated headbands to every children’s hospital in America and 15 countries. When you purchase a headband from Project Shoppe, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to a hospital of our choice.
WE HOPE YOUR HEADBAND WILL SERVE AS A REMINDER WHEN YOU WEAR IT THAT SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS CAN MAKE A HUGE IMPACT.
According to Deepak Chopra, M.D., F.A.C.P., co-founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California and a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, spring is a time for renewal and freshness. Mind and body are intimately connected by the following qualities during this season:
MOVEMENT
After winter hibernation, nature starts to move again in spring. Taking a simple walk outdoors does our body good! We are stimulated by sunlight; Sunshine not only warms us, but activates rhythms via the pineal gland and the hypothalamus in our brains. Simply put, getting our bodies moving again rebalances its energy.
NEW ENERGY
Your metabolism shifts in the springtime. The hypothalamus region of the brain manages where your energy goes and how much is needed. Energy supplies are sent to the more active areas of the body. This is a great time to dedicate yourself to exercise, incorporating cardio and muscle strength.
LIGHTNESS
Spring moves us out of a dark season and ‘into the light.’ In nature, plants and animals pursue a wider range of activity at this time, like finding food, mating and reproducing. We experience the urge for activity as ‘spring fever.’ But looking inward, this ‘lightness of mind’ also translates into ‘lightness of the body.’
Incorporate this theme into your daily activity by addressing whatever is heavy or dull in your life. Find ways to laugh, play and smile. Meditation is a great way to revive your lightness of being!
FRESHNESS
Clutter, debris and dead remnants of winter are swept away in spring and the natural world becomes fresh again. While spring cleaning is one way we respond to this natural phase, consider other ways to bring freshness to your life–from buying fresh flowers to eating light, fresh and natural foods.
Join us for one of our workshops designed to empower you with the tools you’ll need to modify or improve your diet and ultimately, your body!
DETOX
Make way for spring’s renewal by cleaning out the accumulation of toxins in your body. Detoxing both your body and mind is important. You can naturally aid your body’s own detox mechanisms by gettting good sleep and reducing inflammation, which exists at a chronic low-level for most people in today’s modern society.
Physical inflammation induces tension and stress and is prevalent in today’s stressed out society that is addicted to sugar, junk food and demanding schedules. The good news is we have the power to change this. Reducing inflammation in your life provides benefits to the aging process, as well as your health and well-being. Toxins can be reduced by the diet and lifestyle choices you make:
- Reduce fat and sugar in your diet
- Eat organic, natural foods
- Avoid toxins in stale cooking oil and leftovers
- Don’t use tobacco or alcohol
- Avoid or eliminate packaged, junk and fast food
- Take active steps to reduce daily stress
- Practice yoga and begin to meditate
- Avoid situations that trigger toxic emotions such as anger and anxiety
Detoxing your mind is just as important. Old memories, traumas and conditioning that has thrown you into undesirable attitudes and habits constricts your awareness; the best therapy for changing this is anything that allows you to let go, relax and find your true center. Meditation, yoga, therapy, playfulness, loving relationships and a sense of personal security all play important roles.
Begin your renewal by spring cleaning on the inside!