5 years ago, my experience of ‘organic’, was a shelf barely visible in the chilled section of the supermarket and charging at least three times the prices of the vegetables that sat next to it. It wasn’t until I got pregnant in 2017 with Heppy that I watched ‘The True Cost’ movie and instantly began to unpick the many areas of my life where I was buying because of what I’d be told, sold, or shown rather than discovering for myself what my family and I really needed.

You may have read it in the intro, but my journey with clothes really started over 2 years ago after watching a documentary called ‘The Trust Cost’. It made me re-question a lot of the things I was buying; who had made my clothes? Was I buying on impulse? What effects were my purchases causing to people and the planet? I’d already bought a lot of second hand clothes at that time, but the 20% of clothes I did buy new were from Zara mainly, and though hard, I decided the night of watching that movie that I would never shop there again. Dramatic I know.