Fall Vegetable Gardening

As summer is winding down, it may feel like your garden's best days may be behind you until next year. However, this is not necessarily the case. There are some vegetables that are speedy growers, frost resistant and can extend the life of your garden well into fall. Beets, broccoli, lettuce, spinach, carrots and more are great for a fall garden. You can even implement succession planting by digging up crops that have ended their production and replacing them with some fall beauties! By choosing the right plants and knowing how to protect them when temperatures dip, you can have a productive garden.

We have a collection of a few articles that will help you grow vegetables this fall! For more detailed information on Fall Vegetable Gardens, see:

Fall Vegetable Gardening via Better Homes and Gardens
What to Plant Now for a Fall Vegetable Garden via A Way to Garden.com
Fall Vegetable Gardening via A Tasteful Garden

Be sure to check out our selection of Made in the U.S.A. Gardening items!

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Holiday Entertaining with Made in America Flare

Over the next few weeks, we will be making warm memories with family and friends as we gather around tables to enjoy our holiday meals. As we gather together, we each will take a little time to savor what is important to us. We truly take stock of how important our family and friends are to us during this season. The wonderful thing about made in the U.S.A. products is that they are made by our friends, family and neighbors. When we buy one of these items, we are helping those dear to us. Wouldn't be wonderful to put that nice personal touch on your holiday celebrations with something made in America?

From table top to serving to delicious bites, we have so many made in the U.S.A. products perfect for your holiday gatherings!

You can set your table with made in America elegance featuring our beautiful linens. We have lovely woodland table toppers, perfect for giving that rustic feel! We have a square one (36" x  36") and a round one (48" round). Don't the pine boughs just remind you of a first winter snow?

Labor Day Brought More Attention to the Return of Made in America

Labor Day is a day set aside to commemorate the hard work and achievements of American workers. This Labor Day Weekend, we celebrated with new attention to the made in U.S.A. movement. As we learn more about the conditions under which some foreign products are made, develop concerns about the materials used to make these products and realize what an impact buying locally produced products can have, we are learning the importance of purchasing American-made and are having an impact.

This past weekend, there were a number of articles about made in the U.S.A. that are worth the read. What a perfect weekend for these articles to be published! Parade Magazine had a wonderful multimedia feature titled "The Return of Made in the U.S.A." You will find a nice gallery showing images of manufacturing in the U.S. today. Several workers are profiled in different sections of the feature. Often, you hear about the companies behind the products but you do not see the people making those products. You can even take a peek into the Workman Cycles and General Pencil factories. Really a nice feature!

Last week, PlasticsNews published an article about Little Tikes returning some of their manufacturing back to a factory in Hudson, Ohio. The company has seen economic growth in the last several years and credits that to moving some of its manufacturing back to Ohio. With a rise in energy costs, logistical hurdles with transporting items and growing concern about toys made overseas, moving some of the manufacturing back to the U.S. made sense.

In "'Made in USA' on the rise as manufacturing costs drops", CNBC discusses how rising transportation costs and lower electricity and natural gas costs make the U.S.A. an attractive option for manufacturing. An interesting read!

It was so nice to see so much attention on made in America during the Labor Day weekend! With our support of these products, more wonderful products will be produced here.

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Make Mother's Day American Made with Norton's U.S.A.

Mothers are a building block of America. Think about all of those founding mothers who have given so much to this country: Abigail Adams, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley “Molly Pitcher”, Martha Washington, Mercy Otis Warren and many more. These are mothers who spoke up for our freedoms, supported the fight for our freedom, gave their husbands and sons to fight for their freedom and even braved the battlefield for this country. Since the beginning of our nation, mothers have worked to build the U.S.A. Why not reward our mothers with a wonderful Made in the U.S.A. gift? It is the ultimate celebration of what mothers do for our nation!

Norton’s U.S.A. has some many wonderful gifts perfect for Mother’s Day and all made in the U.S.A. Here is a peek at some good gift idea:

We have some beautiful Pearl Peapod Necklaces. You can select one with one, two, three or four pearls to represent your family. Very elegant, yet meaningful.

For the knitters, we have adorable little yarn bowls that help keep yarn in place.

For the chefs, we have a number of cookbooks. Why not pair a cookbook with some beautiful Nordic Ware.

For mothers in need of a little pampering, we have a range of beauty products including lotions, soaps and even bath fizzes.

How about a picnic for mom? You can gift one of our lovely picnic baskets to mom and even prepare a nice picnic lunch for the big day!

There are so many ways to celebrate Mother’s Day with Made in the USA. Will you have an American-Made Mother’s Day?

AND, don’t forget to come to the Cake Auction on May 11^th! Just in time for Mother’s Day! When you buy a cake at the live auction, all proceeds will go to American Cancer Society’s Relay for life. You might just help save a mother’s life!