12/06/2025
What’s so right about markets…
* Markets are the third spaces we desperately need to stay connected.
* Shopping in your community, instead of alone at home, puts money back into local pockets and gives you a chance to hug your friends and high five new ones.
* Your “supporting local” practice becomes real, visible and felt.
* Just by showing up, you are making someone’s day.
* When you connect, compliment, or purchase from a local maker, you are making even more people’s day.
Every gift you buy comes with a memory, a moment from the market, something you learned about the maker, or a small story that adds value to what you share.
* Each purchase gives twice, once to your recipient and once to the artist who created it.
* Being together with friends, makers, and neighbours is a gift to yourself.
* Breaking the monotony is part of what keeps us human, and stretching our wings beyond the comfort of home brings us together in spaces where we can share in joy.
Please support local as much as you can this season. A share, a like, or telling your friends are all incredible ways to lift up your community, even beyond financial support.
In a world that pulls us inward, markets gently pull us back to each other...and we think that’s pretty great!