Pacific Coast Trading Co.

Pacific Coast Trading Co. Find us on the corner of Hwy 101 and the Alt Road, just outside of Seaview, Wa! Right next to Buoy 10 Espresso ☕️ ✨️

Long before it became a day of crowded stores and rushed deals, “Black Friday” was an accounting term. Many businesses s...
11/28/2025

Long before it became a day of crowded stores and rushed deals, “Black Friday” was an accounting term. Many businesses spent most of the year operating in the red, where expenses outweighed earnings. Late November was often the moment when winter markets and end-of-year sales finally shifted the books into the black. It marked a turning point, a sign of stability, and a sense of making it through another year with enough momentum to keep going.

The truth is that many small businesses and local makers aren't reaching that moment. They are not working with massive margins or national reach. Their creations come from kitchens, sheds, garages, and small studios. Their materials are paid for out of pocket and every piece carries the imprint of the person who made it. They create because they care about quality, beauty, usefulness, and meaning, not because it guarantees massive profit.

Our shop is filled with these people. Makers, herbalists, woodworkers, metal artists, chocolatiers, foragers, and creative locals who pour their hearts into what they offer. When you choose something from this space, you are choosing to keep that creative pulse alive. You are supporting real lives, real families, and the culture of a community that values craft, imagination, & connection.

Supporting local is choosing to keep small businesses standing. It is choosing creativity over convenience and helps shape the future of a town by honoring the people who give it soul.

If you feel called, we have some truly special gifts in the shop this weekend. Handmade goods, seasonal teas, elderberry syrup, grounding mushrooms, smudging bundles,and offerings crafted with care for the season ahead. Even a visit or a kind word matters more than most people know. And today, as a small thank-you, every shopper will receive a gift from us.

We are open Friday through Monday, 9am to 3pm.
Find us at 2542 US HWY 101, just outside Seaview next to Buoy 10 Espresso. 🫶🏼✨️

Today is one of those days when kitchens fill early, tables gather people from near and far, and the small commotions of...
11/27/2025

Today is one of those days when kitchens fill early, tables gather people from near and far, and the small commotions of cooking, setting, stirring, and laughing begin to weave themselves into memory. It’s funny how the things that feel busy or chaotic in the moment often become the traditions we treasure most. The smells of rich food, familiar voices, & the little rituals that return each year without being planned.

This season has such an inward pull, yet days like this remind us that gathering is part of the cycle too. Sharing warmth while the world cools. Holding connection while the land goes still. 

Wishing you a day filled with the people who anchor you and the practices that bring meaning to the turning of the year. May your home feel warm, your table feel full, and your heart find something to soften into as the season continues its descent.

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11/23/2025

Castor oil has been used for generations as a way to support the body’s natural flow. It’s one of those simple, old remedies that works with the system rather than against it. When applied with warmth over the liver or abdomen, castor oil helps soften stagnation, calm tension, and encourage the movement of lymph and circulation.

A castor oil pack is easy to make at home.
Soak a soft cloth with castor oil, place it over the area you want to support, cover it with a towel, and add gentle heat. Let the body do the rest. The warmth helps the oil pe*****te deeper, easing tightness and encouraging the system to release what it’s been holding.

If you’re working with the lymphatic system this season, dry brushing is a wonderful companion to castor oil. It wakes up the skin, stimulates flow, and prepares the body to move more freely. Think of it as inviting circulation back online so everything can drain and detoxify the way it’s designed to.

We have castor oil and lymphatic dry brushes stocked in the shop for anyone wanting to bring more intention into their winter care. Small practices like these make a noticeable difference this time of year. You’re welcome to stop in and gather what you need. 🫶🏼✨️

We've been in the turn from the watery nature of autumn into the steadier energy of earth. This is the part of the year ...
11/23/2025

We've been in the turn from the watery nature of autumn into the steadier energy of earth. This is the part of the year when earth's vitality is drawn downward. Animals settle into dens and burrows. Plants pull their life force into the roots. Even the land feels heavier and more deliberate, as everything is concentrating itself at the core.

Earth holds a stabilizing wisdom. Water teaches us to feel and release. Air invites us to think and imagine. Fire pushes us toward movement and expression. But earth asks us to settle, to root, and to recognize the spark at the center of our being. It is the element of incubation, the place where a new form begins long before it rises back into the visible world.

We move through the same cycles. After the full descent, we enter the phase where our own vitality gathers deep within. The inner spark concentrates here. Direction clarifies and concepts reorganize. What belongs to us sits closer to the surface and what never did begins to fall away.

Winter belongs to earth. Dense, fertile, and powerful. It's the element that allows things to take root. It gives shape to intention and brings the unseen into form. Mineral consciousness, steady and ancient, reminds us that we are not only made of passion, emotion, or thought. We are made of the same substance as the ground itself and capable of anchoring our lives in something real.

As we move into a week of gratitude and connection, grounding becomes just as important as reflection. A slowed pace, a warm cup, a nourishing blend, a small ritual that helps the whole system settle into this phase of the year.

If you feel called to gather supports for this earth season, the shop is open today with teas for warmth, mushrooms for grounding, elderberry syrup for immunity, and handmade goods that nourish and steady. You are always welcome to stop in and explore what speaks to you.

Open Friday through Monday, 9am to 3pm
2542 US HWY 101, just outside Seaview next to Buoy 10 Espresso.

In old European folk traditions, elder was known as the medicine chest of the people. The tree was believed to be protec...
11/22/2025

In old European folk traditions, elder was known as the medicine chest of the people. The tree was believed to be protected, and to cut its wood without permission was considered a serious misstep. Approached with respect, it offered protection, healing, and safe passage through the darker months. The berries were simmered into syrups and wines to strengthen the body, and its branches were hung by doorways to keep illness from crossing the threshold.

Taking elderberry syrup today is part of that same lineage of seasonal tending. Modern research confirms what people understood intuitively. Elder is rich in flavonoids that help strengthen immune response and support recovery during the colder months. Its use carried into the Americas as well, woven into both Indigenous and settler traditions as a food, a medicine, and a quiet form of protection through winter.

A small daily dose is a reminder that we're part of an older intelligence, one that understood how to work with the season instead of against it. If you feel called to gather a bottle for the weeks ahead, the shop is open with fresh batches on the shelf. Warm teas, grounding mushrooms, and other seasonal supports are here as well.

Open Friday through Monday, 9am to 3pm
2542 US HWY 101, just outside Seaview next to Buoy 10 Espresso.

This part of the year carries its own distinctive intelligence. Nature has pulled its energy inward and the body, whethe...
11/22/2025

This part of the year carries its own distinctive intelligence. Nature has pulled its energy inward and the body, whether we intend it or not, follows that call. The descent is not only physical. It turns our attention toward the deeper landscape within us, where the real work of the season unfolds. This is when the unseen parts of us come closer to view. Old beliefs, outdated ideas, and familiar concepts that no longer fit begin to make themselves known to be understood and released.

The spark of what comes next gathers here. Before any action is taken, something inside concentrates and becomes clearer about what belongs to us and what never truly did. This is the deeper meaning of the descent. It gives us space to see the framework we live from and choose what we want shaping our lives going forward. This is also the work of knowing oneself. The wintering months help us trace our own inner architecture, the places where fear has been steering us, and the places where something truer is starting to rise.

To move with the season is to stay in conversation with this terrain. To notice where we contract, where we open, and which concepts actually support the person we are becoming. The orientation reveals itself in its own timing. The spark of what comes next is already forming.

If you are feeling that pull, the shop is open with seasonal teas, grounding mushrooms, elderberry syrup, and handmade goods that support this slower, inward stretch of the year. You are always welcome to stop in and gather what you need.

Open Friday through Monday, 9am to 3pm
2542 US HWY 101, just outside Seaview next to Buoy 10 Espresso. 🪾🍂🫶🏼✨️

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2542 US 101
Ilwaco, WA
98624

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Monday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

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