The first shipment of baskets, for what was to become the Nzuri Basket company, arrived on Cortes Island in August, 2020. 

Jenny Hartwick didn’t set out to found a company. The baskets she initially brought home, from a trip to Kenya, were gifts for friends and family. 

“It wasn’t until we were back in Canada and I’d given away all of my baskets. Everybody was saying to me, ‘Wow, these are amazing can you get more of them?’ I thought, ‘Gee,  maybe I can look into that’ and so that’s kind of, that was the start of where it came from,” explained Hartwick. 

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