About Sierra The Green Lady
I was inspired to create Green Women Mercantile because I wanted to stay home with my small children and help other women who make healthy products do the same thing. I have a passion to support local small businesses, and to bring fair trade products to families that are striving to be planet friendly. I hand pick each item and use them myself.
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This all started when I home-birthed Jude in the winter of 2002 and found that I loved holding my chubby breastfed baby and using a baby sling was so easy and comfortable. I became a distributor of Maya Wraps and began selling them out of my car everywhere I went. People would come up to me in grocery stores and on the street when I was “wearing” my baby and wanted to know how to get one.
Then, through many seasons of inspiration and hard work, the idea for Green Women Mercantile came into being and I am proud to support women who make beautiful green items and bring them to other women who care about not just buying slave made china products.
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I love women, the art of conscious mothering, intentional parenting and learning more and more how to live lightly on the earth. I believe in the power of creating change through small ( and large) choices and that when we purchase, use and give fair trade, it does make a difference.
About Sierra:
I was born at home in the little town of Beulah Colorado to my then nearly teenage parents Dave and Helene Van Manen. At that time, homebirth was very counterculture and I was my midwife’s first rural birth. My parents were children’s performers and specialized in writing Environmental Children’s songs. I traveled with my parents around the US during my home-school years while they sang at libraries, schools and conferences.
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I loved reading, theater and art and the outdoors throughout my entire educational experiences and when I met my soon to be husband Erik, I was immediately attracted to the fact that he too loved to read. We married in 1999 and lived in Colorado Springs until moving to our wonderful 1950’s home in Pueblo, Colorado. We enjoy being a part of a small community that is growing in awareness around living green and being a part of this awakening movement. We are raising our children based on earth centered values; living simply on the earth, recycling, eating healthy and having fun outside. My husband loves to fly fish and I love to cook slow foods.