Take a peek at the talented artists and craftspeople you’ll see at our upcoming Winter Market, a cozy afternoon of community, creativity, and holiday cheer.
Sunday, December 7th, from 12pm to 4pm,
2408 Shelburne Falls Road, Hinesburg, Vermont,
Free admission.
This festive market will feature a collection of local artists and makers offering beautiful handmade gifts, providing the perfect opportunity to shop small and support Vermont talent this season. While you browse, you can sip mulled wine, enjoy treats from our Bake Shop, and take in the scent of fresh evergreen wreath-making in action.
You'll also find a selection of Red Wagon's own herb products, gardening tools, merchandise, and gift cards ideal for the gardeners, cooks, and plant lovers on your list.
Spend the afternoon in our warm, heated greenhouse, surrounded by friends, beautiful things, and a little bit of holiday sparkle. We look forward to celebrating the season with you!
BEE HAPPY VERMONT
Pedro Salas and Susan Reit de Salas, of Bee Happy Vermont, will have honey, hand-crafted 100% pure beeswax candles, lip balm, and other honey and beeswax treats from their beehives in the hills of Starksboro, VT and the farmlands of the Champlain Valley.
SUSAN LEPPLE
Susan Lepple will have beautiful rustic garlands to adorn interior spaces. All materials have been grown or collected by Susan, who has an aesthetic appreciation for the elegant wispiness of grasses, the mounding greens of mosses, the complexities and colors of flowers, the texture and form of seed pods and the irregular nature of branches, twigs, and vines.
JANET GRAY FROM EVERYBODY WINS! VERMONT
Janet Gray from the Everybody Wins! literacy program at the Hinesburg Community School will be talking to people about volunteer opportunities and sharing books and stories to keep kiddos entertained in our cozy greenhouse during the winter market.
In Everybody Wins! sites around Vermont, adult volunteer mentors are carefully matched with students at their local elementary schools to read together, have conversations, and make enduring connections weekly over lunch. Their Power Lunch program sets children up to love reading and succeed in life. It supports local schools and communities by connecting community members to their schools. Mentors say that reading day is their favorite day of the week!
ZOE JEWETT SHELDON
Zoe Jewett Sheldon, of Vesper Hill Farm believes in making beautiful things that nourish the land and its wild inhabitants. Through rotational grazing, native plantings, and other practices, she’s re-inhabiting her 200-year-old Vermont farmstead - enhancing habitat for grassland birds and other wildlife while her Lincoln Longwool sheep grow the lustrous fleeces she transforms into yarn, felt pelts, woven goods, and handmade dolls. Every piece she creates is proof that farming can nurture both beauty and biodiversity.out this person
VERMONT QUILT BEE
Hope Johnson of Vermont Quilt Bee will be selling her intricate and kaleidoscopic honey bee-inspired fiber art, made right in Shelburne, Vermont. Hope’s beautiful prints of her wall and larger-sized art quilts portray hives in all seasons and colors of the year and celebrate the mathematical beauty of some of our most important and sweetest pollinators. Hope proudly and gratefully shares her success with the beekeepers whose stewardship and knowledge of the honey bee has allowed her to flourish artistically and raise awareness of the importance of ecosystem health.
COLORS OF NATURE VT
Lynne Gavin, of Colors of Nature VT, is a natural dye resource: an advocate for natural color, teaching classes, and growing dye plants. Lynne sells one of a kind pieces of apparel both upcycled and new, homewares and accessories, each hand dyed and constructed in Richmond, Vermont. Lynne's specialties include botanically printed textiles, indigo shibori to plant dyed cottons, silks, wool and linen
DIG DIG SPOONS
Jennica Stetler of Dig Dig Spoons will have spoons and various other utensils that she has foraged, shaped, carved and finished up the road at her farm in Hinesburg. Dig Dig Spoons are made to cook, serve and eat real food! They are carved from local foraged hardwood Straight grained cherry, birch, poplar, maple and apple and chopped into a spoon with an axe and knives.
PAPER CLAY NATURE
Sharon Fennimore of Paper Clay Nature will have her playful animal and botanical-inspired designs on ceramics, clothing and paper goods. Sharon is an artist, writer, and independent educator based in rural central Vermont.
WOOLFDEN HOMESTEAD
Nora Woolf of Woolfden Homestead will have a range of her beautiful and useful handmade brooms, including full house brooms, cobwebbers, pot scrubbers, round, hawk and turkeytail handwhisk brooms perfect for sweeping surfaces, vehicles, auras and anything that needs cleaning off. Nora works with broomcorn, cord, leather, hardwood sourced as closely to home as possible.
CRY BABY CLAY
Katie Cameron of cry baby clay makes handmade ceramics “ that bring big feelings to small daily moments.” Her endearing and irreverent mug, pots, berry baskets and other homewares are made in small batches following her whimsy.
