Vendor Spotlight: THISTLE FARMS

*Thistle Farms is a social enterprise of women who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction, and life on the streets. By hand the women create natural body care products. Magdalene is the 2-year residential community. We believe love is stronger than all the forces that drive women to the streets.*

Consider the thistle.

This is one of the 24 principles of living at Magdalene - what love has taught them.  When you consider the thistle, you find this...

"See, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and springs in the wasteland."  Isaiah 43:19

It is with full hearts that we welcome our sisters from Thistle Farms to the A New Thing Fall Marketplace October 25th and 26th.  

These beautiful women will be selling their quality bath and body products at our Marketplace.  All products are made with all natural ingredients and the same love that has healed their lives.

*Thistle Farms products are available in over 200 stores in Tennessee and across the country. Into every Thistle Farms product goes the belief that love is the most powerful force for change in the world. Our dream is that people will come to see Thistle Farms as a humble but powerful business synonymous with women’s freedom.*

"We want to sell the products, but we really want to support the women, and then support a movement that is about changing a culture that still buys and sells women."  Becca Stevens, founder of Thistle Farms

This Video so beautifully tells the story of the women of Magdalene.

"No woman went to the streets by herself. It took a community, a broken community to help her get there. And it's going to take a whole community to help her come off the streets, too."  -Stevens

We invite you to become part of that community.  

Purchase with Purpose. 

All profits from the Thistle Farms booth will go directly back into their ministry.

*All texts with an asterisks indicate a direct quote from the Thistle Farms website.  You can find much more information about this social enterprise there.  Also, follow this link to see an interview with Thistle Farms by Diane Sawyer.