Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Grey Highlands is very fortunate to have a hospital and to be building a new one.
Our guest in the Community Booth is the Centre Grey Health Services Foundation. It takes a whole community to support the hospital. Stop by their tent and see what is happening.
The mission of Centre Grey Health Services Foundation is to raise, manage and disburse funds to support and enrich quality health care for residents of and visitors to our community. The government provides less and less funding for read more...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018
Today's Featured Vendor is our new business – Laslyn – Fabulous Felt, Sustainable Fashion.
Using the fibre from our own alpacas we are now creating everything by needle felting it using a FeltLOOM. Each piece is a unique handcrafted original.
We have created several wonderfully light weight but soft and warm shawls, scarves, hats. We are also creating area rugs, we have several available now but we can also do custom orders to suit your home décor.
For needle felters we can also make sh read more...
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Friday, July 20, 2018
Welcome to Frank Duyvelshoff.
We met Frank recently at an art show in Grey Highlands, I loved the peacefulness of his work, and that it was of local places people might recognize.
Frank is a born and raised in Oakville. He recently retired from a senior corporate position and decided to try his hand at Art. He is currently attending Sheridan College in the visual arts continuing education program. He and his wife, Carol have a cottage on Lake Eugenia.
Frank's current interest is in "Cap read more...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
The youngest and one of the newest entrepreneurs at our Open Barn & Country Market is Olivia.
We are happy to welcome Olivia and her new business Finn's Fabulous Bandana Collection. Olivia is a participant in the 2018 Summer Company Program offered through the Business Enterprise Centre - Grey County. This program offers young people a chance to run their own business, The Centre offers so many helpful workshops, great mentors to help the students get off to a great start.
Olivia has a wo read more...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
Shpurshire Farm is a 100 acre century farm using old world farming techniques and holistic medicine. Farmer Marni has been a holistic practitioner and Herbalist for over 3 decades with most of her initial training coming from her Grandmother and Great Grandmother at a very early age! Marni was a preteen before she realized that most people went to the in town Pharmacy for their medicinal needs!
She now uses the same approach in her farming . All the animals raised on the farm are old world He read more...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
We are happy to have Kathleen Cairnie-Sorensen join us for her first show of Spiritual Health Arts.
Kathleen's fine art is of a Spiritual Nature and is very unique.
Labyrinths are an ancient form of meditation, going back over 4000 years. They are different from mazes in that there is only one way in, and one way out - no tricks. The purpose is to use your creativity while engaged physically in order to solve problems, de-stress, or simply reach a deeper level of meditation. The problem w read more...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Christine of Rocky Hill Hideaway Peppers and Herbs has been a vendor at local farmers markets for 9 seasons and this is her 10th of selling her products. Her plan is to continue to grow her market business and successfully develop new products while maintaining high quality and value to her customers.
Here is what Christine has to say.
-I moved to the Flesherton area 20 years ago
-I live with my husband, Brett, and have one son, Mason
-I have worked in the area and also spent three year read more...
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Monday, July 16, 2018
This is the third time this young artist has joined us.
Mykel, the Blue Monk Arts, is an artist focusing on fluid acrylic pour painting. Currently Mykel is exploring abstract expressionist painting, emphasizing colours and movement.
By moving away from strict images and focusing on flows, hues, and shapes it allows the paintings to be more subjective in their expressions of patterns, rather than realist images. Mykel, as an artist, is often stifled by perfectionism. Focusing on bold colou read more...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
So many health benefits to be found with Annanda Chaga.
Annanda Chaga is a small family owned and operated company in Collingwood Ontario . We believe that the Chaga Mushroom is truly a gift of nature to be enjoyed by all. We hand pick, clean & sort and air-dry our wild harvested Chaga Mushrooms with loving care.
Inspired by his own health recovery and that of his wife, Heather and immediate friends and family, Blair started Annanda Chaga to bring an honest and pure Canadian source of this read more...
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