Try Local PH Turns One!

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Exactly one year ago, Francesca, Kristine, and I launched TryLocalPH: a social media movement with the aim to discover quality local concepts, places, brands, and ideas.

With over 21k likes on Instagram, 6k on Facebook, and over 29k tags from around the world, we can’t get over how awesome this year has been for us.

To the brands, local guides, photographers, and followers that have given this movement their time, talents, and support. We thank you from the bottom of our proudly local hearts and can’t wait to share what we have in store next!

In celebration of our first year for the 21k in followers, we invited 21 local brands we admire to join in the celebration by having an original illustration created by talented artist Jo Anne Coruña of @astudyofobjects. Here they are:

Bodyfood All Natural is a small business made locally with many of its raw materials sourced from different parts of the country if not homemade and processed in its humble laboratory.

Ephemera Traders: Ephemera Traders is a boutique producer of high quality Philippine coffee from the mountains of Bukidnon.

Anthill Fabric Gallery: Anthill Fabric Gallery is a social and cultural enterprise working to preserve and promote our Philippine hand loomed traditions by applying them in contemporary applications of everyday essentials.

Good Food Community: Delivers organic veggies. All of their produce is local, furthermore they speak of what beautiful ecological diversity might taste like. The practice and the service illustrate what a relocalized community-based economy could be across the city-farm divide.

Cat & Kai Handmade Jewelry: Lovers of the sea and environment! They love creating unique, handmade & personalised silver and seaglass jewelry.

Proudly Promdi: They proudly distribute local handcrafted Bugnay and Tapuey Rice wine from the province of Ilocos Norte! We also make awesome wine cocktails too!

Flow Retreats: Flow holds their retreats in beautiful resorts and gorgeous beaches around the country, proudly showcasing the abundance of venues locally that one can reconnect with nature. Besides spreading wellness and healthy living, they also promote travel and tourism around the country.

Bread & Botany: Bread&Botany is a finer diner concept that serves familiar fare, using innovative techniques and wholesome ingredients. Sandwiches inspired by global classics are the main feature, along with a strong focus on sides, which includes their house-spiced Fried Chicken.

Theo & Philo: Theo & Philo began from the founder’s interest in discovering single origin chocolates around the world– which led him to ask the question why there were no chocolates coming out of the Philippines when we have the natural resources and raw materials to make chocolates here. Since then, Theo & Philo has been one of the pioneers for crafting great quality local chocolates.

Mayown: Mayown is a livelihood project that was started in a disadvantaged community in Pandacan, Manila. It’s founder began to teach women how to crochet her designs to help them earn money, as she found that “nice” jobs were hard to come by in the area. Mayown provided a flexible job with a good salary, perfect for a mom also responsible for caring for a whole family.

co.lab: Co.lab, established in 2011, is the first cross-sector coworking space in the Philippines. Today, there are over 25 coworking spaces in the country. As the way we work in today’s world is constantly changing, co.lab’s unique space allows entrepreneurial individuals and start ups to focus their efforts on shared learning, creating opportunities, discovering common interests and serendipitous moments.

Beyond Borders: Beyond Borders strives to uphold a local tradition of weaving called Inabel. They work towards raising more awareness of this local craft, and to capture a wider audience market in hopes of helping perpetuate this tradition

E. Murio: Exquisitely crafted in a quintessentially Filipino design,each E. Murio piece is made from only local and sustainable materials. Created using traditional methods of making by local craftsmen, allowing them to customize to your heart’s desire.

Little Luli: Little Luli are makers of adorable children’s clothes and accessories. They are proud of their homegrown brand not only because they aim to design and make clothes and accessories for kids to enjoy but also because they showcase the good craftsmanship of local mananahis (dressmakers).

Tali Handmade: Tali Handmade are handwoven straw bags made by women artisans. It is the brainchild of two entrepreneurial friends, both working moms, who were inspired to provide opportunities for others after a visit to female inmates at a city jail in the Philippines.

Pottly N Tubby: Pottly N Tubby’s is a children’s home lifestyle brand that does everything from scratch. They aim to provide a full room set up for kids and create the belief that Philippine craftsmanship can compete with the rest of the world.

So True Naturals: So True Naturals is a locally-made mom and baby skin care brand using the finest ingredients from all around the world. Started by a mom in a kitchen, armed with a stick blender and a mission to make better skin care choices for her family.

Fäe All Natural: One of our favorites for the home are these hand poured candles made from locally sourced beeswax and organic essences from FäE. Lovingly created in four multi layered fragrances with a long lasting “clean burn”.

Lupe Saenz: Lupe Saenz is a local shoe company offering leather shoes made with premium materials created by the artisans of Marikina City, the Philippines’ shoe capital.

Harana Surf Resort: Harana Resort is a vernacular, Filipino-Modern resort located in Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte. Only a walk away from the famous break, Cloud 9, they provide guests with some of the best surfing the Philippines has to offer.

Bayani Brew: Bayani Brew is more than just curiously yummy, ridiculously healthy, proudly homegrown beverages. It is, first and foremost, a passionate and unabashedly patriotic social enterprise on a mission to address the pressing problem of subsistence farmers living in poverty.