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Earlywood Designs
If you like to cook, you’ll love Earlywood, a Montana-based operation that makes exquisite wooden utensils just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Founder Brad Bernhart, a mechanical engineer by trade, first started carving wood spoons as a hobby. He’d look through people’s utensil crocks for the oldest, best-loved pieces, studying what made them so special. Today, Earlywood makes tools rooted in tradition but ready for modern kitchens.
Our favorite items include two deceptively simple pieces. There’s the Large Flat Sauté — which works as a spatula, flipper, and salad tong — and the Big Tera Scraper — a wider flat tool designed specifically for cooking in cast iron skillets. Adaptable, space-saving, and comfortable in the hand, these have become some of our marketplace editor’s go-to utensils. She also delights in her long-handled Wooden Tasting Spoon, which is perfect for sampling whatever’s at the bottom of her Vitamix. Perhaps surprising for a company based in Big Sky Country, Earlywood also specializes in Asian cooking utensils. At the request of food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, the author of a book on wok cooking, Bernhart developed a Wood Wok Spatula. Earlywood also offers long wooden cooking chopsticks and small rolling pins designed specifically for dumplings.
Earlywood takes sustainability seriously. The company makes all its items from four different hardwoods, each chosen for performance and with distinct natural coloration. The woods are untreated, except with mineral wax. For every order, Earlywood donates $1 to the Nature Conservancy’s reforestation project in Brazil. Donations totaled over $88,000 at the end of 2024. To avoid waste, Earlywood turns wood scraps into pen blanks. Extra sawdust gets compressed into burnable briquettes and given away to neighbors. To keep your wooden tools looking gorgeous for generations, Earlywood offers a helpful guide to wood care and a wood oil and wood wax. The most sustainable products in your kitchen are the ones that are in for the long haul. Earlywood’s utensils really fit the bill.
Enter code BLUEDOT at checkout to save 10% on your purchase through July 6.
Our favorite items include two deceptively simple pieces. There’s the Large Flat Sauté — which works as a spatula, flipper, and salad tong — and the Big Tera Scraper — a wider flat tool designed specifically for cooking in cast iron skillets. Adaptable, space-saving, and comfortable in the hand, these have become some of our marketplace editor’s go-to utensils. She also delights in her long-handled Wooden Tasting Spoon, which is perfect for sampling whatever’s at the bottom of her Vitamix. Perhaps surprising for a company based in Big Sky Country, Earlywood also specializes in Asian cooking utensils. At the request of food writer J. Kenji López-Alt, the author of a book on wok cooking, Bernhart developed a Wood Wok Spatula. Earlywood also offers long wooden cooking chopsticks and small rolling pins designed specifically for dumplings.
Earlywood takes sustainability seriously. The company makes all its items from four different hardwoods, each chosen for performance and with distinct natural coloration. The woods are untreated, except with mineral wax. For every order, Earlywood donates $1 to the Nature Conservancy’s reforestation project in Brazil. Donations totaled over $88,000 at the end of 2024. To avoid waste, Earlywood turns wood scraps into pen blanks. Extra sawdust gets compressed into burnable briquettes and given away to neighbors. To keep your wooden tools looking gorgeous for generations, Earlywood offers a helpful guide to wood care and a wood oil and wood wax. The most sustainable products in your kitchen are the ones that are in for the long haul. Earlywood’s utensils really fit the bill.
Enter code BLUEDOT at checkout to save 10% on your purchase through July 6.
Darn Tough Socks
Made in Vermont, Darn Tough merino wool socks are a Bluedot staff favorite. These colorful socks for men, women, and children not only feel good on the feet, but also in the soul. Darn Tough is on its way to meeting the 100% Responsible Wool Standard, which protects animal welfare and adheres to sustainable farm and land management practices. The company also gives back to the community by donating proceeds from various sock designs to the Vermont Food Bank and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, to name a few. Darn Tough offers an unconditional lifetime guarantee: “As long as there's enough of your sock remaining that you can send it back to us and we can tell it was once a Darn Tough sock, we'll cover it. Even if there are more holes than sock left.” Now that’s a warranty!
Mabel's Labels
The most sustainable items are the ones you keep, but it can be particularly hard to hang onto kids' stuff. Items like lunch boxes and water bottles are easily forgotten at school, dance lessons, and friends' houses. To solve this problem in her own life, Leslie Garrett, Bluedot’s Editorial Director and former Today’s Parent editor, turned to Mabel’s Labels. “As a parent, Mabel’s has saved me a ton of money — especially on water bottles and lunch containers. Those labels stick to anything and they stay stuck.” Mabel’s guarantees its labels will withstand the laundry, dishwasher, microwave, and even sweaty teen athletes. They make labels for just about everything: socks, shoes, rulers, pens, backpacks, calculators, food containers, pacifiers, bottles, soccer balls, tennis rackets, and more. A ton of design options means that all kids can have labels that they love.
Mightly Organic Kids' Clothing
Mightly’s mission — “Kid-friendly styles in Earth-friendly fabrics at family-friendly prices” — sounds simple enough. But we haven’t found many companies that pull it off. The company’s entire clothing line, which suits babies to 14-year-olds, is Fair Trade Certified and made from GOTS Certified organic cotton. And, you'll get 20% off when you use code BLUEDOT20 at checkout. Top picks include leggings with reinforced knees ($17.95), three-packs of tees ($34.95), and cute hoodies and joggers ($37.95 and up). We at Bluedot always like a trade-in program, so we were happy to see that Mightly has a Lightly Loved section on its website, which clearly speaks to the quality of the clothing. One more plus: flat seams and itch-free tags that score positive reviews from touch-sensitive kids.
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Ecozoi
Whether you pack lunches or just need to store leftovers in the fridge or pantry, Ecozoi has you covered. Made of food-grade stainless steel with silicone seals and lids, the brand's containers are unbreakable, 100% leak-proof, and available in sizes for a variety of needs. One Bluedot mom who packs her kids' lunches each day says these are good “especially if you are looking for bento-box style." (Don't worry, they work great for sandwiches and crackers, too!) We think they’re cool enough to head to the office, as well as first grade. Save 15% with discount code BLUEDOT.
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Climate Quick Tip: Record Recycler
If your vinyl records are starting to sing a sorry tune, donate them to any local thrift/secondhand store. If they’re damaged beyond use, consider repurposing them into decor or search the Vinyl Institute Recycling Directory’s website.
Donate your no-longer-wanted vinyl records to a thrift store. If they are damaged beyond use, consider using them for decorative crafts or check the Vinyl Institute Recycling Directory for recycling.
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