Made in America – Ramblers Way

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Ramblers Way. All opinions are 100% mine.

There are times when I think back to my childhood and miss the feel of the town I grew up in.  I grew up in a small town in Connecticut.  A suburb of a major city nearby.  My town really consisted of one main street through the center of town and then all of the side streets branching off of it.  If you needed to go to the grocery store or the drug store or the local pizza shop, you would go to the main street through the center of town.  I remember the local grocery store.  We knew the owner by name and we would receive the one page sales flyer once a week in the mail.  However, as I grew up, the local grocery store wasn’t the place to go to for deals as the larger chains popped up in nearby towns.  The local toy store next door to the grocery store shut down.  Small mom & pop restaurants were not able to survive.

I don’t know if my town suffered because of the loss of the small mom & pop shops, but I can say that my town lost some of its unique appeal when the larger chains moved in.  My town preserved its historical presence with a museum that, as a child, I went to on numerous field trips.  However, the museum is now surrounded by large, impersonal chains.  Going back to my town, I can barely recognize it.

A company called Ramblers Way Farm is changing the way business is done.  Ramblers Way Farm sources, grows and produces their wool apparel using 100% domestic resources.  They are helping revitalize communities by bringing manufacturing facilities into distressed towns.  If only more companies had this intent!  Ramblers Way is striving to preserve history and yet further the economic stability of distressed towns.  They take the “Made in America” title and not only live it out, but spread it from town to town as their company grows more and more.  Knowing that Ramblers Way Farm is striving to support our economy by keeping hiring within is what Made in America means to me.  Made in America does not mean outsourcing to other countries where labor is cheap.  Made in America is utilizing America’s tools, land, workers, etc and using our resources to produce quality products.  Their amazing woolen garments are outstanding quality and prove that outsourcing is not necessary to make a quality garment.