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Fair Winds Trading Company |
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Fair Winds Trading Company aims to develop an ethical and sustainable method of international and intercontinental trading through the ecological transportation of fairly traded goods that support bio-diversity.
Fair Winds Trading Company, a not-for-profit organization, is introducing a line of natural and healthy products, based on indigenous African produce, designed for outdoor enthusiasts. The income from these products will create a revenue stream to support our projects.
At the moment we are working with producers in the Casamance region of Senegal to develop products for the european market.
Our long-term goal however, is to evolve, and demonstrate an ecologically sustainable method of sea transport.
We are working on the design for a prototype ecological cargo boat that will be used exclusively for the transport of fairly-traded goods that support bio-diversity. |
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Sail & renewable energy transport |
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 Fair Winds Trading Company will transport goods by sea with the use of ecologically sustainable renewable energy. Our objective is to design and build a prototype that is fast, manoeuvrable and able to carry a payload; while being simple, economic and ecological to build.
From conception to deconstruction this boat will be 100% eco!
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 Midgie Magic, our first product, is the only fairly-traded all-natural midge repellent on the market. The base oil, carapa, is produced sustainably from the oil of a local tree, and is used in Senegal for everything from wrinkle creams to organic pesticides. Combined with other essential oils, it makes a remarkably powerful midge repellent which we believe works as well as, or better than, anything on the UK market today. We have packaged it so that it fits easily in any pocket. And it smells nice too!
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 The Casamance is a low lying region between the Gambia and Guinea Bissau,
cut through by the wide and salty, tidal Casamance river. To the west a honey comb of small channels winds through the mangroves, where hidden villages, only accessible by boat, are revealed by the appearance of children dressed in a rainbow spray of bright colors, screaming and laughing on the shore, inviting us come to visit them.
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