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MADE IN THE USA By Mark McKellar
Each year when I go to Birdwatch America I really make an effort to take into account the country of origin of the products I look at purchasing. I know it is important to myself and my customers. This year, John and I were eating lunch at a table with several people and this subject came up and one inventor was telling us that he tried and tried to find someone to produce his feeders in the U.S. but no one could do it. The technology he needed was “out of date” in this country and the only place using it was China. He is not alone.
We were successful in finding new products and much of it is made in the USA. (or at least not China). Woodpecker Products Inc. is a group of Disabled American Veterans up in Minnesota who have developed their own line of suet plugs and feeders. They salvage wood from forest fire areas to make their feeders and their unique suet plug formula contains what they call BirdNip. I’ve been using it since the show and the birds love it. A look around the store does reveal a lot of Made in the USA stickers. Almost all of our hooks and poles are made in Chicago, Mor-bilt feeders and houses are made in Parkville, Aspects feeders come from Rhode Island, and the almost all of our seed (except Nyjer) comes from the Dakotas or Kansas. It isn't until you get on the gift side of the store that the USA labels get a little harder to find. Even so, companies like Haw Creek Forge are all handmade by a group of ladies in the mountains of North Carolina. T.M. Hoff rain gauges are from upstate New York. We'll keep doing our best to find you quality products made in the USA. |
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