Thursday, July 26, 2018
Something totally unique to our area, Dark Morning Designs. Dark like an overcast sky when you want to stay in and be cosy.
We are glad to welcome Jen and her alternative fashions to our event.
Here is Jen's bio:
I started sewing by working with Black Orchid Designs in Cambridge Ontario. I took classes and also sewed for the shop. She suggested (Kerri Mercer) that I create my own brand!
I still supply teach and have two teenagers to look after but fashion is my meditation. My fashi read more...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018
We are thrilled that we are able to have a food vendor for this year's event, and we are happy to support the Rotaract Highlanders. This new community service group started last year and have already hosted a few events, but received their official certificate from the Rotary Club of Markdale in March 2018.
Rotaract is an international community of people aged 18-30 (35 in the Highlanders) working together to promote community involvement both in our local community and the international co read more...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Another great addition to our event is author Carolyn j Morris.
Carolyn will showcase her seven Railfence Bunch children’s books. Chick and Duckling are always on an exciting adventure in her books!
Also Carolyn’s four Spruce Valley novels will be available. The whole family will enjoy these short fictional novellas that are set on a farm in southern Ontario.
The illustrations for the Railfence Bunch books are by local artist Richard McNaughton.
Maybe after a day of being with the a read more...
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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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