Shop
Commerce comes after context
There is nothing for sale here yet — deliberately. If this project ever sells anything, it will be because the cultural groundwork made it legitimate, not because a store needed stocking.
The sequence
Learn what merkén is. Learn where it comes from, how it is made, what kitchen and history it belongs to. Then — if producers want it, on their terms — buy merkén appears at the end of that path, not at the start. Begin where the shop will begin: the merkén page.
What a product page will owe you
- Who made it — producer and community, named.
- Where and how it was made.
- Its relationship to the culture it comes from.
- How it was sourced.
- Where the revenue goes.
What this will never be
A store using Indigenous culture as marketing decoration. If a product cannot carry its provenance, it does not get a page. Possible future categories — food, books, language materials, art, music, textiles — all inherit the same rule.
Status No commerce exists here yet. This page marks the standard it will be held to when it arrives.