CCW Hunting Gear and Gun Accessories

CCW may be best known for their unique combo four-in-one turkey calls featuring an owl-hawk-crow locator call built into the base of a beautiful hand crafted turkey box call.


CCW turkey box call and slate call kits are also very popular, but many may not know that between the box calls and friction calls CCW has one of the largest selection of turkey calls on the market today.


CCW Hunting and Game Calls and it's parent company Cottage Craft Works .Com which also provides high quality American Heritage inspired custom hunting gear and gun accessories. If you want a high end hunting gear, CCW is the place to go.


Custom replacement and hand carved gun stocks are a popular place for the avid gun user. CCW can obtain or duplicate a gun stock for just about any rifle or shotgun ever produced.


Custom gun cases for either display or storage are also available at CCW.

CCW Hunting Gear and Gun Accessories

Beautiful handcrafted and finshed hunting and game calls are at CCW.

What many might not realize is that Cottage Craft Works is also a full line outfitter with American made briar proof outerwear, hunting gear belts, gun holsters, slings, feeders, and hunting dog gear. CCW can also have custom restoration, replacement gun stocks, or custom work completed on any type of gun.


Backed with a full line general store concept, you can outfit yourself or camp with outdoor cooking gear and other outdoor sporting equipment. Be sure to check out all the wonderful hunting and game calls along with other outfitting needs at http://www.cottagecraftworks.com

CCW Hunting and Game Calls

Cottage Craft Works Hunting Gear

CCW Halfmoon Turkey Box Calls

CCW Halfmoon Turkey Box Calls

CCW Friction Pot Turkey Calls

CCW Four Star Combo Owl/Crow/Hawk/Turkey Box Call

CCW American Heritage Hunting Gear

CCW Pro Gear Hunting Belt

CCW Pro Dog Trainer Belt

CCW Custom Leather Gun Holster

CCW Custom Leather Box Turkey Call Holster

CCW Custom Nylon Holster

CCW Hunting Gear and Gun Accessories

CCW Hunting and Gun Accessories at Cottage Craft Works .Com

CCW Hunting and Game Calls and it's parent company Cottage Craft Works .Com provides high quality custom hunting gear and gun accessories. If you want a high end hunting gear belt, CCW is the place to go.

CCW Custom Gun Restoration Services

CCW has several shops with leading skilled gun craftsmen who will do high end engraving and inletting on gun stocks, and gun metal. Complete restoration services are also available for original Winchester and Parker rifles as well as other brands. Send us a picture along with a sketch of the custom work you are looking for and we will obtain a quote for you.

Custom Wood and Glass Gun Cases

Custom Hardwood and Glass Gun Display Case


A museum quality display case for your museum quality prized collector's pistol!


A high quality Amish handcrafted display cabinet custom made just for the discriminating collector.

Custom Hand Carved Gun Stocks

As Featured in the March 2011 issue of Outdoor Life Magazine!


Imagine exquisitely detailed images of your favorite hunting scenes-right on your gun stock! This talented Amish artisan can detail fabulous hunting scenes into your favorite gun stock, or one of our custom replacement gun stocks.

Custom Leather CCW Gun Holsters

Our Quality American Made Hand Crafted Leather Holsters vs. massed produced and the Imports.


Just like a custom made pair of cowboy boots, our leather craftsmen make each one of our leather holsters and products one at a time. They use only the best heavy-weight, premium leather harvested and tanned in the United States.

Custom Replacement Gun Stocks

CCW Custom Replacement Gun Stocks


We have access to over 1000 stock blanks, if you have a unique gun we can always duplicate the stock in various different woods and grades, including laminates. We have only listed just a few of the most popular models.

CCW Slings, ammo carriers, and ammo pouches

CCW has a large selection of gun slings, ammo carriers and ammo pouches. All made from American tanned premium leathers

Custom Replacement Gun Stock Butt Plates

CCW has custom replacement gun stock butt plates for some of the most popular guns ever made, including Winchester, Parker, Fox Sterling Worth, and many others.

CCW Hunting Gear and Apparel

CCW is a dealer for American Made Dan's Hunting Gear, from all the briarproof jackets, vest, shirts, chaps, boots, game pouches, and hunting dog gear CCW is your one stop shop for all hunting gear and outer wear.

CCW Hunting and Game Calls

CCW has one of the largest selections of hunting and game calls on the market
Hunting calls for wild game, upland bird and waterfowl calls are all available at CCW.

CCW Game Feeders and Food Plot Seeds

CCW has some of the most inexpensive game feeders and some of the best food plot seeds.

CCW Hunting Gear Belts and Game Bags.

CCW has high end hunting gear belts and gear bags. Inspired by hunting gear from the American Heritage. You simply will not find a more versatile hunting belt, built with this level quality material and workmanship anywhere else on the market.

CCW Hunting Dog Gear

From transmitter holders, to dog protection vest and training supplies you will find a large selection of Pro Hunting Dog Gear at CCW

CCW Hunting Gear and Gun Accessories

CCW Hunting Gear and Gun Accessories at Cottage Craft Works .Com

CCW has some of the best American Heritage inspired hunting gear to be found anywhere. Produced by some of the most talented craftsmen, using top grain premium American tanned leathers and tough denier high tenacity nylon. This gear is American made to take a beating out in the field, allowing the hunter to focus more on the hunt than worried if the gear will hold up.


CCW provides leather gun accessories, custom replacement gun stocks and custom gun works and restoration services. CCW Amish hand carved gun stocks were featured in the March 2011 issue of Outdoor Life Magazine.

American Made Products For Home, Farm, Ranch, Gardening, and Hunting

Families turn back to American made self-sufficient Products

There are several movements occurring across America. Some believe in the potential collapse of the economic system and are scrambling to find back-to-basics self survival gear and non-electric products. Others are looking for self defense because of the increasing crime and uncertain times we are living in, others are turning back to living off the earth to rid the potential of toxic chemicals and contaminants being found in the food supply chain, or are looking to go "Green" with energy savings and reducing their carbon foot print. Others are simply unemployed over extended periods are looking how to transform their back yards into a food producing and income producing ventures.


They call themselves "Preppers" those who are preparing to live for extended periods without electricity or infrastructures. Others are just trying to rid themselves of debt, expensive toys, high real estate taxes and just live a more simple stress-less self-sustaining life style. Frugal back-to-basics living is no longer being viewed as being poor but a necessity of daily living.


One thing is for sure-- old fashioned American made quality products built to last, that are used to produce homegrown and homemade items are becoming the "New In Thing" for the American family.


Old fashioned products for a sustainable culture are still being made in small factories and shops all across America. Many people don't know where to find them or how to purchase as many shop owners just don't have the type of marketing dollars to compete with the large corporations, mainly selling imported products.


Cottage Craft Works at http://www.cottagecraftworks.com is one small company who has specialized in the locating and promotion of products made in the cottage based and small American businesses. For over 30 years the owners of Cottage Craft Works have developed relationships with the Amish communities. With now more than 5000 products Cottage Craft Works has a full line general store for the back-to-basics self-sufficient, sustainable culture seekers.

American Families Seek American Made Self-Sufficient Products

Cottage Craft Works Supports The New Frugal American Made Products Family Movement

If you are looking to find old fashioned American made products you are not alone. People want to turn back time--they are tired of the cheaply made copycat items that look like the originals but never work like the originals they remember from their childhood. American people are frustrated over the loss of jobs, after American based factories faded away to foreign soils to make these products cheaper.


Mixed within the overall decline of quality came the theory of planned obsolescence, where if you built a quality product that would last a lifetime, you would at some point be out of business because no one would need to purchase again. Then came corporate greed, with less regulations companies found they could take short cuts in the manufacturing process to make even higher profits, some used recycled items containing toxic chemicals, and heavy metals, others did not invest the time into the expensive research and testing to be sure their products were safe and made to last.


There are several other movements occurring across America. Some believe in the potential collapse of the economic system and are scrambling to find back-to-basics self survival gear and non-electric products. Others are looking for self defense because of the increasing crime and uncertain times we are living in, others are turning back to living off the earth to rid the potential of toxic chemicals and contaminants being found in the food supply chain, or are looking to go "Green" with energy savings and reducing their carbon foot print. Others are simply unemployed over extended periods are looking how to transform their back yards into a food producing and income producing ventures.
One thing is for sure-- old fashioned American made quality products built to last, that are used to produce homegrown and homemade items are becoming the "New in Thing" for the American family. Frugal back-to-basics living is no longer being viewed as being poor but a necessity of daily living.


Cottage Craft Works located at http://www.cottagecraftworks.com has assembled a full line of old time American made products still being made within the cottage based businesses and small shops from across the country. The majority of the products are Amish made and used daily in the Amish back-to-basics way of life, while other products have been found in the back roads and small towns of America from trades and craftsmanship passed down from generations. This is not "Fu Fu" stuff but real products used daily in the home, garden, farm, ranch, hunting and building construction for those seeking to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Corporate greed and planned obsolescence has never crossed these people's minds, in fact it's quite the contrary, as they have built their business and livelihoods on providing quality products to their closest neighbors and small communities.


During the Y2K scare people overwhelmed the Amish communities for non-electric back-to-basic items, in fear that the country would be without electricity or an infrastructure. This level of uncertainty is beginning to climax again for those same back-to-basic products. It is not being hyped on the front pages of newspapers as a single issue like it was back then, but the demand to find these products is increasing just as much now.


Across America people in some form have assembled emergency supply kits to survive several days without electricity or infrastructure if no more than to survive from earthquake, storm, or other natural or man made disaster, others are making the move to total off- the- grid in-dependency.


Cottage Craft Works offers over 200 books on self-sufficient living topics. From building solar/wind efficient housing, raising livestock, organic gardening, to homemade products and cooking from scratch recipes you will find a book on every topic of self-sufficient living, including making an income from self-sufficient products.


Under the Cooking and Food Processing tab you will find hand crank cooking gadgets, high quality Stainless Steel and cast iron cookware, as well as equipment to process dairy, maple syrup, apple cider and make your own wines. Cottage Craft Works is a dealer for the commercial grade hand crank mixer formally known as the TROYCRAFT MIXER, the GrainMaker® grain mill and carries the hand crank Master Kuts Food Processor.


Under the Home Goods Tab you will find Amish furniture, pet items, sewing machine cabinets, including a complete treadle sewing machine, vintage toys and board games, handmade baskets, Amish quilts, butane and gasoline clothes irons, laundry tubs, laundry drying racks, and portable clothes lines. Click on the oil lamps to see the old fashioned indoor and outdoor oil lamps, or discover gas powered lighting. Need a repair part for an older Coleman lantern; you will find them in this section.


Looking for personal needs, or spiritual items click on the Faith | Family | Hope | Tab to find items for health and wellness, spiritual and Christian based child development. You can even subscribe to the popular Keepers at Home Magazine under this section. Scan proof wallets are also available.


Under the Farm and Garden tab you will find items for the horse and tack including horse drawn buggies wagons, and carts as well as tools equipment and books on raising livestock, farming, and gardening, including going "All Organic." Under this tab you will find a complete lineup of orchard and vineyard equipment, including all types of apple and wine complete presses or the hardware kits to build your own press. Find chicken coops, chicken nesting boxes, beekeeping equipment and purple martin housing under the birds and bees tab in the Farm and Garden section.


If you need long lasting patio furniture you will find poly plastic recycled furniture under the patio tab along with Amish Wind Chimes. The Poly lumber is UV and rot resistant assembled with Stainless Steel screws and hardware. The furniture is ideal for coastal areas subject to saltwater spray. The 401 Freezeless Water Hydrant is also made of Stainless Steel ideal for coastal areas as well. Cottage Craft Works carries a small Amish made manure spreader and will be adding other small hobby farm implements. Small Express wagons are also located under the Farm and Garden tab.


Entering the Hunting and Outdoors Sports tab is like walking into a full line sporting goods store, except the quality and the craftsmanship of the items will rival anything on the market. The hand carved gun stocks were featured in the March 2011 issue of Outdoor Life magazine. The hand tooling detail on the custom leather products from the holsters, ammo belts to the gear belts are all top notch heirloom quality. High end game and hunting calls perform as well as they look but the prices are as reasonable as the big gigantic sports and hunting stores. This the type of gear that made legendary hunters, hunting gear that will pass from generation to generation. Cottage Craft Works strives to bring unique items that just can't be found elsewhere. They carry a 4-in-1 combo turkey call that has all the turkey locator calls built into one handsome handcrafted unit. American made briar proof coats, vest, bibs, and chaps are also available in this section along with gun accessories, blinds, and outdoor sports items. This is where you can still purchase the red metal and wood snow sled, croquet set, and an easy up volley ball set. This is the section where you can find two sizes of a very handy all aluminum bicycle cargo trailer. It is a light weight trailer that easily attaches to any bicycle without using an additional hitch. You can carry groceries and supplies, camping gear, or use it at work to transport gear around large factories. The cart is ideal for island living or where traditional automobile traffic is limited. Bike mounted police and emergency workers can also use it to carry gear and emergency equipment in and around crowded events. Best of all with its convenient handle you can roll it around the yard as a yard cart.


Under the building Products tab you will find the Natures Head a self contained composting toilet. It uses no running water or sewer plumbing. It is odorless and even approved by the US Coast Guard for on board toilet facilities. You will find complete restoration services, for duplicated spindles and house trim, as well as cupolas and copper weathervanes. Solar and wind power kits will be added to this section in the near future. 


Cottage Craft Works provides a source for the old time American made quality products that were used and cherished for generations, which are still being manufactured today. Products to help you and your family live a more wholesome self-sufficient life style in today's very uncertain times. Looking through the Cottage Craft Works online is store is just like picking up an early 1900s Sears and Roebuck Co. Catalog and spending hours making your wish list! Products are full of nostalgia and memories, products you grew up with but never dreamed would still be available for purchase in today's crazy fast moving high tech and dependent vulnerable world. So take a deep breath, slow down a bit and enjoy the country life with us at Cottage Craft Works .com.

Pond full of stagnate water and algae?

Consider adding a charming but beneficial aerator windmill, there is no electricity required!

A working aerator windmill from Cottage Craft Works will not only add charm to your home it will also add beneficial oxygen to your pond. Windmills have been used for generations to provide water, electricity and now available for pond aeration.


These windmills are the perfect addition to a self-sufficient sustainable homestead dependent on clean fresh pond water for live stock and hobby farm irrigation.


A pond or lake is a great resource for the back-to-basics self-sufficient homestead. A well maintained lake can provide an abundance of fresh fish, frog legs, and crawfish. It also provides water for irrigation and livestock, as well as a place to take a cool dip on a hot summer day. However, not maintained that same pond or lake can quickly become a quagmire of thick weeds and aquatic vegetation to the point fishing becomes near impossible because of the weeds entangling the hooks.


Aeration helps mix the water with oxygen to get to the bottom of the pond, and aides in providing cleaner water.


Aerator windmills from Cottage Craft Works features towers built from aluminum and use stainless steel nuts and bolts to provide a rust free long lasting structure. A 60" diameter fan with stainless steel shaft will provide approximate. 3 cubic feet of air at 12 miles per hour.

Why spend almost the same amount of money to have an ornamental windmill of this size when you can really benefit your pond and habitat with a working aerator windmill?


These are actual working windmills built to aerate and maintain water quality in a pond. Without oxygen pond water becomes stagnate, dirty, smelly and full of bacteria.


In the Northern states plants die in the winter and fall to the bottom of the pond. As plants decompose oxygen levels become reduced. In the summer and in the Southern states where temperatures remain hot, fertile ponds can develop an Oxygen Devoid Layer. An oxygen devoid layer can develop in late summer which not only reduces the area in which fish can inhabit, but can cause a fall fish kill when water cools and the oxygen devoid layer mixes with the rest of the pond.


Aeration helps mix the water with oxygen to get to the bottom of the pond, and aides in providing cleaner water.


Aerator windmills from Cottage Craft Works features towers built from aluminum and use stainless steel nuts and bolts to provide a rust free long lasting structure. A 60" diameter fan with stainless steel shaft will provide approximate. 3 cubic feet of air at 12 miles per hour. The fan shaft connects to a rubber membrane diffuser, and comes with 100' of ½" airline. The unit will produce air flow in winds of 3-5 mph, and has an automatic slow down in high winds. This is a very low maintenance and long lasting windmills built in an Amish shop in Northern Indiana. Sizes come in 20' and 30' Tall shipping requires truck freight.


Cottage Craft Works provides a wide variety of farm and ranch products made in small cottage based shops from across the United States. American made products such as the Aerator Windmills are built with old fashioned pride and quality to last for many years. See all the wonderful products this on line back-to-basics-general-store provides at http://www.cottagecraftworks.com


You can purchase an aerator windmill at Cottage Craft Works Farm and Ranch http://www.cottagecraftworks.com/windmills-aluminum-aerator-windmill-p-207.html?osCsid=91e62212b77bcb5810205fb059983b85

Prepping for when SHTF, living more self-sufficient, or just being Green?

Whether you are concerned of an economic collapse, or just want to escape back to a simpler self-sufficient lifestyle you are not alone.

People are looking for an escape back to when growing up and living the American dream was not so complex. They seek the simpler life of living less dependent, being more self-sufficient, and more in control of their lives.


There are a large growing number of people who are stocking up and purchasing equipment preparing for the worse


Others just want to escape the chaos and move back to a simpler lifestyle with fresh air, and less toxic chemicals. Some are either being forced to do so because of the loss of incomes or have decided to change from being heavy in debt and unhappy with their situation. A large number are finding self-sufficient living as being very healthy, enjoyable and rewarding.


People are just fed up with the, economy, politics, world events, dependency on foreign oil, toxic products and contaminated foods.


2012 will probably be noted in history as the year of significant changes in the way people think, work, live and purchase products. Green is in, China products are out. American made, home grown, and the small home town businesses atmosphere is beginning to return. People will become better prepared to handle whatever economic, natural or manmade disaster that can be thrown upon them.


People are adapting and finding solitude in getting out of debt, living on less, and living without the stresses of uncontrollable circumstances. Instead of eating unhealthy foods they are cooking from scratch, deciding what additives to provide the family, and knowing where their food came from. Families are once again joining together around the dining room table to talk about family values and wholesome living.


Frugal living, recycling and shopping the thrift stores is no longer living in shame, but a place to join with others who are also wanting to live more self-sufficient.


Despite those who think the world is ending, or afraid that another world war or financial collapse is about to occur in 2012. It is actually probably a good time for our country, for us to rethink the environment, politics, lifestyles, and the way we live and raise a family.

Whether you consider yourself as a prepper, a seeker for the simpler self-sufficient lifestyle, or an environmentalist, Cottage Craft Works probably has you covered with all types of back-to-basics self-sufficient off-grid products.


Stores such as Cottage Craft Works provide a wide network across many Amish communities and other small cottage industries that still make the old time products used before the grid reached some of the most remote country side areas.


It would take years of traveling the back roads to find some of these products; in fact that is how Cottage Craft Works began. With a passion for living self-sufficient, the owners have spent over 30 years traveling the back roads to find self-sufficient products. Over this time they developed many business relationships with the Amish and other small business and cottage based businesses. This network of cottage based vendors is what makes them so unique, providing some of the highest quality durable products that can be found anywhere.


Take a look at this unique online old time general store. People often remark visiting Cottage Craft Works is like taking a tour of an early Sears Roebuck and Company Catalog.

Preppers are Prepping for the future, living more self-sufficient and less dependent

They call themselves "Preppers" they are preparing for the worst

 A large and growing number of people are stocking up and purchasing equipment with the anticipation that our normal day to day lives could be disrupted or changed forever sometime in 2012. They call themselves "Preppers" and some are preparing for when Sh@# hits the fan. (SHTF). What SHTF you may ask? Well it's a large number of concerns that have all seemed too accumulated as potential issues for 2012 and beyond.


Some are deeply concerned with the economy, increasing violent crimes, hostile countries, terrorist attacks, and what they see as a potential accumulation towards a possible total economic collapse.


The large consensus of people are just having to live with less or are in fear of losing a job and have chosen to live a more frugal self-sufficient lifestyle.


Many are just fed up with corporate greed, problematic food chain contamination issues, use of pesticides and increasing importation of foods and other products from countries less concerned with passing on harmful chemical and toxins than making a profit.


Some are very concerned with their carbon foot print, and are seeking less dependency on oil and grid power.


Before jumping to conclusions and writing off certain groups as being radical or just crazy, you may just want to consider the facts and begin to also prepare for some type of disruption in your own life or begin to live a more wholesome self-sufficient lifestyle.


There is an element of people in our society who do believe and have pointed to the start of 2012 as the beginning of the end of the world.


Setting that phenomenon aside, there are plenty of other issues driving people to be genuinely concerned.


Many are preparing for another Y2K, whereas again believing the computers that run virtually every thing we depend on are at risk, from solar storms, or some other event.


Let us investigate what is driving these fears and how you may also want to become better prepared.


It is projected that solar storms will become more active and could possibly create some blackout or disruption in communications and computer equipment in the future. The debate ranges from being just a few seconds to an extended period of time.


Regardless if these are real threats or not, we do know the country is being impacted by some of the most brutal storms that have ever been recorded. These are not inconvenience storms, where power can be restored in as little as 24 hours. These storms are devastating communities, and in some cases wiping out entire towns. It is taking weeks and months to rebuild the infrastructure of power lines needed to deliver grid power back into these wide spread devastated areas. Those living in or around can attest that being without power and communications is a real issue that they were not prepared for. If it is not a storm, just the stress on the grid during peek periods bring rolling black outs and cause power plants to drop off line.


Just take a look around at the increases in computer technology that has occurred over the past decade, since Y2K. It is a fact that we have become more dependent on computers; even homes are now being equipped with computer controlled smart meters. So if you are preparing to stock up on candles, oil and battery lights in case of an extended power outage, you are already "Prepping".


There is no denial the economy is creating more crime. People have been unemployed for extended periods and are desperate to support their families. This desperation leads to an attitude of taking from others whatever they need to survive. It is a fact that crime is up and criminals are becoming more brazen in taking what they want at any time of the day or night and in places that you wouldn't have thought could be dangerous just a few years ago.


2011 gun sales were one of the hottest trends ever for a Black Friday. Gun sales continue to be a leading indicator that people are taking self protection measures more seriously. The sales of guns to females are a large and growing trend amongst total gun sales. If you have joined the ranks of purchasing a gun for self protection, you are "Prepping".


The economy and the threats of new terrorist attacks linger on every ones minds. The uneasiness of foreign struggles and financial meltdowns are a real issue. Could the country face a total economic collapse or another deeper recession is the debate.


We know people from around the world are planning daily to somehow attack, disrupt, or the American economy, sabotage our computers, and cripple our infrastructure, such as attacking the gird either physically or by the computerized systems that run it.


We often just don't realize how dependent we have become on computers. This dependency on computers now drives functionality. Stores can no longer do a cash sale without a computerized system, banks can no longer do transactions without a computerized system, and every level of transportation we now use depends on computerized systems to either run the transport or control the directional systems to get us from point A to B. So what would happen if just for a few days someone shut off a switch to every computerized system in our lives? If you are keeping a little more cash around and stocking up on some basic necessities just in case, then you are probably already "Prepping".


An aside to the Prepping discussion, people are just becoming more skeptical of the safety of the nations food supply chain. It is a fact that more and more recalls are occurring because of contaminated food entering our food supply. And then people are becoming more concerned with the additives, preservatives and the processing techniques of foods that maybe also causing more unhealthy lifestyles and diseases.


To counteract these fears people are again turning backyards into garden spaces to grow their own fresh vegetables. Others are turning back to the land to raise livestock to either produce meat, or milk and eggs. Hunting is regaining in popularity as a concern for necessity more than just being a sport. If you are turning back to the land to raise your own vegetables, livestock, or hunting to stock meat in the freezer you could be either prepping or just searching for a more wholesome and healthy self-sufficient lifestyle.


It could also be frugality, a desire to just live more green, or both. Those with a passion to lessen the impact on environment by decreasing the amount of waste they send off to the landfills are finding repurposing, or recycling a new way of looking at the products and the supplies they purchase. Plastics are becoming less attractive to consumers, not only for the landfill aspect but the carbon foot print dependency on oil to produce them. Plastic shopping bags have been completely banned in several areas.


Both preppers and environmentalist are learning to turn what would have been junk into products that they can use to live self-sufficient, as well as save some green cash. Plastic drums are being turned into compost machines and rain barrels to store rain water. Solar heating collectors are being built from aluminum cans, and other discarded sheet metal objects. Discarded glass windows are turning into green houses and covers for solar panels. 12 volt car parts are being converted to daily household products to run off batteries charged by solar or wind generators.


As history goes we may look back on all this preparedness and say it was a good time for our country. In all this chaos people are actually enjoying the purpose of learning to become more self-sufficient. They are beginning to learn new skills, get a little fresh air, more exercise and feel an accomplishment of doing something more for their families.


In the middle of disasters, Americans pull together to help common strangers, make new friends meet neighbors for the very first time and forget all about economic social classes.


Changes in attitudes change purchase patterns, which in turn reprograms the entire business cycle. If companies can't sell their toxic dependent products they will soon be forced to change to the consumers demands or go out of business. People are already turning products over to see if it is from such places as China, and if so pass on by. Many are looking for the sustainability and seek out to purchase recycled products. A shift is even beginning to occur away from the mega corporate owned chains to come back to the small downtown single owner shops that will still stop to shake a hand and say thank you.


In the preparation for Y2K many people flocked to the self-sustaining Amish communities to find off-grid equipment and supplies. Just like then companies who brought those same products to the general market became very popular as a one stop self-sufficient shopping place.


Whether you consider yourself as a prepper, a seeker for the simpler self-sufficient lifestyle, or an environmentalist, Cottage Craft Works probably has you covered with all types of back-to-basics self-sufficient off-grid products.


Stores such as Cottage Craft Works provide a wide network across many Amish communities and other small cottage industries that still make the old time products used before the grid reached some of the most remote country side areas.


It would take years of traveling the back roads to find some of these products; in fact that is how Cottage Craft Works began. With a passion for living self-sufficient, the owners have spent over 30 years traveling the back roads to find self-sufficient products. Over this time they developed many business relationships with the Amish and other small business and cottage based businesses. This network of cottage based vendors is what makes them so unique, providing some of the highest quality durable products that can be found anywhere.


Take a look at this unique online old time general store. People often remark visiting Cottage Craft Works is like taking a tour of