This nourishing tallow blend soap smells like a field of lavender in the sun.
Hand-poured cold processed soap. 4 oz.
Ingredients: Olive oil, Coconut oil, Beef tallow, Lavender essential oil, Kaolin clay, Titanium dioxide.
Local Soap – Moss Landing (Peppermint and Eucalyptus)
This nourishing tallow blend soap is extra sudsy, and smells like peppermint and cool eucalyptus.
Hand-poured cold processed soap. 4.25 oz.
Ingredients: Olive oil, Coconut oil, Beef tallow, Castor oil, Peppermint & eucalyptus essential oils, Green mica.
Local Soap – San Gregorio (Blackberry and Sage)
The San Gregorio bar is a gently cleansing olive oil blend with a lush blackberry scent.
Hand-poured cold processed soap. Vegan. 4.25 oz.
Ingredients: Olive oil, Coconut oil, Palm oil (R.S.P.O. Segregated Source), Phthalate-free blackberry & sage fragrance oil, Purple mica.
State Park Pencil Set
This charming pencil set celebrates some of our favorite local State Parks and Beaches! Each set features six sturdy pencils: Seacliff State Beach, the Forest of Nisene Marks, the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, Natural Bridges State Beach, and Wilder Ranch State Park.
Map – Monterey Bay Panorama
22×50 poster showing the Central California coastline from San Francisco to Big Sur, by local artist Eric Knight.
Also available at the Natural Bridges and Seacliff ParkStores (where you can also see a mounted display, up close!).
Butterflies of Monterey County Field Guide
This beautiful field guide contains photographs and the natural history of 91 species of butterflies that live in the Monterey area.
Draw the Great Outdoors by Harrison How
Local author Harrison How has published a fun and easy guide to creating beautiful ink drawings of your favorite outdoor spots, from redwood forests to tidepools to beach dunes and more. Drawing outside is a wonderful way to calm your mind and learn to appreciate the little details in your favorite parks.
Explore all the beauty nature has to offer with 20 awe-inspiring land and seascape sketches. In this accessible, step-by-step guide, artist and nature enthusiast Harrison How shows you how to effortlessly capture the ancient wonders of the world in stunning panoramas. Harness the tenacious spirit of the arid deserts as you form Ever Shifting Sand Dunes. Hear the call of the wild as you chart the weathered rock and eroded slopes of the world’s most dramatic mountain peaks with Majestic Volcanos or Cliffs and Rocky Ranges. Unearth the mysteries that hide beneath the waves in Otherworldy Tide Pools.
Harrison breaks the most complicated scenes into mini-tutorials so you can master every detail with ease. You’ll also learn how to seamlessly layer everything together from the smallest shrubs to the largest canyons for picture-perfect drawings. No matter your age or skill level, all you need is a pen to bring the outdoors to life.
Aptos Cement Ship Sticker
Add a touch of Aptos pride to your water bottle, bike, car, or laptop! This charming orange and yellow sticker features the beloved SS Palo Alto (or as it’s known to locals, the Cement Ship).
Made in Santa Cruz by Pau Hana Designs!
The Fylling Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood
Get to know some of of your less familiar wild neighbors with this beautifully-illustrated field guide!
In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling’s Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling’s full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals. With Fylling’s guidance, the everyday becomes extraordinary: Pigeons share nest-building and egg-sitting duties, and mate for life—with occasional dalliances; squirrel teeth grow about six inches per year; spiders owe their characteristic creep to their “hydraulic” legs; poison oak and poison ivy’s itch-inducing oil is also found in pistachios, cashews, and mangoes; and much, much more.
The Forest of Nisene Marks Candle
Handmade in Pescadero, California! This lovely candle smells as earthy and fresh as the trees in the Forest of Nisene marks, without being overpowering. And it’s poured into hand-cut recycled wine bottles from California Coastal wineries! Light it on a gloomy day and bring the scent of the forest inside.
And check out our Wilder Ranch and Natural Bridges candles too!
Soy wax, and scented with phthalate free non-toxic fragrance oils.