Shop Local, Dobbs!

Shopping local is one of the most sustainable practices you can do in your daily life. Not only does this support small businesses in your community, but often times local shops and purveyors source locally as well, cutting down on transportation of goods, and related emissions. It might even get you walking in your downtown!

See our list of vendors, proprietors, restaurateurs and the like who are doing their part and taking extra efforts to go green.

And when possible, Shop Local Dobbs!

Artisan Salon: Using a haircare product line whose ingredients are either natural in origin, eco-certified, or organic, with a mission to encourage and respect local biodiversity.

Bloomy Cheese:  Supporting small-scale, sustainable farmers, cheese makers, and other artisans.

Cafe Latte:  Reusing coffee grounds for patrons' garden compost.

Climbing Wolf:  Collecting used coffee grounds for enriching the compost efforts at Roots + Wings, the sustainable living initiative of South Church. Using stainless-steel straws for cold beverages.

Cocoa Tree:  Being all electric -- and 99% of the chocolate packaging & ice cream supplies are compostable or recyclable.

The Cookery:  Focusing on local and sustainable ingredients while recycling waste oil and unsold goods.

Dobbs Ferry Lobster Guys:  Sustainable sourcing of seafood by catching it locally and responsibly fishing it.

Endless Trail Bikeworx:  Promoting cycling to lessen our carbon footprint and repairing old bikes, saving them from the waste stream.

Harper’s:  Sourcing ingredients locally and sustainably as much as possible, while minimizing food waste.

Home Again Consignments:   Reducing our waste stream by finding new homes for no-longer-needed household items.

Midnight Run: Finding a new purpose for gently-used clothing, while forming a bond between housed and homeless people.

The Parlor: Furnishing the restaurant with reclaimed and upcycled furniture & using ecofriendly utensils and packaging.

Rivertown General:  Being mindful of reuse, minimizing plastic packaging in merchandise, and offering sustainably sourced products.

Rochambeau Wines:  Not using shopping bags & supporting family wineries and distilleries from the Hudson Valley and around the world.

Sam's Italian Ristorante:  Eliminating plastic cutlery in delivery orders, unless customer requests them.

Salon Topaz:  Recycling 85-95% of salon waste -- keeping it out of the waste stream, through Green Circle Salons.

Saw Mill Pizza:  Participating in the Too Good to Go app to reduce food waste.

Sweet + Savory:  Offering promotions to those bringing reusable cups and using creative alternatives to plastic straws.

Scribble Art:  Saving scraps and using found objects to give them new life through children's imaginations.

Terrapin Rose:  Using organic soil and employing more earth-friendly products for pest control.

The Pod:  Socially, economically, and environmentally empowering cacao farmers and our local community.

Three Dogs:  Recycling used dog-themed books for donation to animal charities.

Tomatillo: Being locally sourced, conscientiously delicious.