Explorer's Market

At Explorer's Market we pride ourselves in providing excellent quality, value and service to our customers while providing our customers with a way to make a difference in the world through fair trade, as well as offering an outlet for local craftspeople and product made in North America. We are a Canadian owned and operated company based in Napanee Ontario. We work with many artisans around the world that individually hand craft the fair trade products from wood, metal, pottery, textiles, and natural fibers. The majority of our products come from Indonesia, where we personally visit our suppliers to find or develop new products. Our suppliers are mostly operating from their own family homes where generations of a family gather to carve, paint, string beads, or weave. We buy directly from all the families whom we have come to know over the years. Because we support fair trade, the artisans we buy from set the prices and determine their own wages and profit to share among themselves. We also use local shippers, rather than foreign run operations, to co-ordinate and load our containers. Explorer's Market values our environment too! That is why we choose to focus on easily replaceable resources such as fast growing softwoods and bamboo, wood from managed forests, reclaimed, recycled or reused resources, clay products, and fabrics that are hand painted or woven in small family run operations. We try where possible to reuse and recycle packing materials and pride ourselves on being a socially and environmentally responsible company.