Organic for Kids

"SHEVILLE — As a young mother, Becky Cannon raised her two daughters with no sugar, meat or dairy products, but plenty of vegetables and whole grains. But Cannon worried as much about what her babies wore as about what they ate.

“I never put plastic on their bottoms,” Cannon recalled. Because she was living in Japan at the time, “I was able to find all these cool baby things.”

But finding natural diapers and other clothing without any harmful chemicals was harder in the U.S. a quarter century ago.

So when Cannon returned to Asheville, she launched her own mail-order business out of her home, then became a manufacturer of swim diapers and employed local seamstresses to churn out 10,000 a week."

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