5th Anniversary Party

To celebrate our 5th year in Wayne, we're throwing ourselves a great birthday bash!  To make it even better, Patagonia is celebrating it's 40th year this fall.  On Saturday, November 9th we'll be celebrating form 1-9pm.  Food and beverages will show up around 5. Teresa's Next Door will be catering, so you can bet the food and beer will be amazing!

There will also be tons of giveaways, everyone who attends gets entered into a raffle for gift certificates from Patagonia, Arc'teryx, North Face, Horny Toad and Sorel.  Other brands will have free gifts with purchase.  For those of you that still rock your vintage Patagonia, make sure to wear it to the party.  We're giving away a $250 Patagonia gift certificate for the best vintage Patagonia piece.

In honor of Patagonia's commitment to the environment, we will also be donating 5% of sales from the day to the Willistown Conversation Trust.  The trust non-profit land trust dedicated to preserving the rural beauty Southeastern Pennsylvania.

How to Identify Poison Ivy

Here's a great infographic we found to help identify that pesky plant, poison ivy!  Happy Hiking!

Patagonia's "20 Million and Change"

Patagonia has just launched it's newest initiative, "20 Million and Change" a fund to help start-ups who follow the Patagonia philosophy of using business to benefit the planet.  They have decided to reach beyond the framework of apparel and the outdoor industry.  By providing funding to other start-up companies, Patagonia will be able to reach more people and help the environment even more.

Being environmentally conscious is an important ideal for them.  Patagonia was one of the founding members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, along with some of the other biggest names in apparel.   The Coalition's goal is to have "an apparel industry that produces no unnecessary environmental harm and has a positive impact on the people and communities associated with its activities".

For 30 years, Patagonia has donated 1% of it's sales to grassroots environmental organizations. Since the program began, they have given over $49 million in grants and in-kind donations to more than 1,000 organizations.  We're happy to hear that they've taken it one step further with "20 Million and Change" and can't wait to hear about the new start-ups they fund!

Over 150 Trees Planted!

On April 28th we had a great turn out for our tree planting event at the Riverbend Environmental Education Center.  Customers, friends and staff came from all over to participate in this wonderful event.  We even has a couple come all the way from Atlantic City, talk about dedication!  We wanted to thank everyone who came out and all of our sponsors, Horny Toad, Patagonia, Smart Wool and Honey Stinger.

Yay for tree planting!

Check out the rest of the pictures on our facebook page by clicking here.

Tree Planting at the Riverbend Environmental Education Center

Out There Outfitters will be hosting a tree planting event, sponsored by Horny Toad.  It will take place at the Riverbend Environmental Education Center.  We're asking participants to meet us at Riverbend at  1:30pm. We will have a light brunch available, then a Riverbend employee will give us training on how to plant the trees.  We expect the tree planting to go until 4:30, then everyone can come back to the store and enjoy a BBQ.  We'll have the grill fired up out back and beer in the cooler.

The first 30 people to sign up will get a free tote bag full of goodies!