Local Gift Guide
It matters where you buy gifts for family and friends. Local businesses need support more than ever and the Ohio Valley is bursting with ideas that will inspire and feed your holiday list. Give tools to keep idle hands busy this winter, functional art to make the mundane magical, or basket of treats that can lift the spirits. Whatever you choose, try to support local artisans and our small local businesses this year.
Local Boutiques
Pink Moon Goods
A curated selection of home goods and paper goods that you will not find anywhere else in the Miami Valley. The unique range of products found in this perfectly cozy and quaint shop will impress you. Familiar brands such as Weck Jars and Redecker brushes are paired with locally handmade pottery, dish towels, and wooden cutting boards. Whether you are looking for a gift for a loved one, something special to treat yourself, or a new sustainable swap for home this will be a great place to explore a line of goods that are ethically manufactured, beautiful, and practical.
7th Street Gifts
Selling handcrafted soaps, fresh poured oils, candles made on-site, stones and crystals, food grade botanicals and teas, tinctures, and metaphysical wares and nature findings, 7th Street Gifts is a working apothecarium, metaphysical shop, and Airbnb.
Green Living by Design
Green Living by Design is a sustainable full service one stop shop for eco-friendly, sustainable Green Living. The Green Living Market by GLBD boasts farm raised produce, locally curated groceries, botanical gifts, indoor houseplants, and a full selection of sustainable and native plants for your landscape. Come and visit our gardens, snip fresh blooms from our cutting gardens, or enjoy a beverage, snack, or meal on our covered patio area.
Sally’s Treats & Treasures
A magical store for home cooks. Find vintage and slightly used kitchenware and appliances for the home cook. If you’re looking for that cookie dough press your Mom had, a set of vintage glass refrigerator dishes, or a lightly used Kitchen Aid Mixer – this is your place. Please text 513.500.3683 for information.
Spring Grove Village: Monday, Wednesday, & Saturday | 11am-3pm
Arts & Crafts
The Collective
The Collective is a gallery / gift shop / boutique featuring the works of over 150 artist and makers. We showcase fine art to fine craft and everything in between, housing mostly local artists, but some special regional ones too, taking pride in our established and newbie artists just the same. The Collective is a vibe, a shopping experience. You will likely feel inspired as you browse two rooms of this highly curated collection of arts.
Lloyd Library & Museum
The Lloyd Library Shop is a great place to find exclusive merchandise created from the Lloyd's one-of-a-kind collections. The shop is open during all open hours of operation and on-line. Don't miss our signature notecards and prints, as well as t-shirts, mugs, journals, aprons, and more!
Savories
Kofinas Oil + Vinegar
Flavored olive oils and vinegars from Evie Semertzides using sustainably harvested olive oil from her home village on the island of Crete—always fresh 100% extra-virgin olive oil from last year’s harvest.
Bridges Nepali Cuisine
Bridges' Momos are Nepali style dumplings made from scratch. Stuffed with Chicken, Pork, or perfectly spiced Vegetable fillings. They are juicy and come with a delicious house made tomato sauce. One momo, one bite to get the best experience.
Small Batch & Handmade
The Bonbonerie
At BonBonerie, our rule is that everything we make must be two things: beautiful and delicious. Our Bakery uses quality ingredients like sweet cream butter, cane sugar, fresh lemon juice and zest, Belgian chocolate, and real vanilla from Madagascar. We create everything by hand in the BonBonerie kitchens, including all our doughs, icings, syrups, batters, and fillings.
We provide a delightful experience in our Café and Tearoom. Any day of the week is the perfect time to visit the Café for bakery favorites, fresh salads, soups, sandwiches, and quiches, while the Tearoom is available for private parties.
Fab Ferments
Did you know Jenn and Jordan ship their Fabulous Ferments all over the county? Share award-winning and healthful fermented products with family and friends anywhere. You can ship sauerkraut, beet kvass and cultured hot sauce nationwide! Made with love in Lockland, Ohio.
Urban Stead Cheese
Urban cheesemaker making award-winning cheeses and offering a fantastic selection of local and artisan goods.
Our cheeseboards are individually curated with our award-winning cheeses alongside locally-sourced charcuterie. Urban Stead Cheese can also help you create a custom gift basket or bag or work with you to put together corporate gift packages.
Dorothy Lane Mail Order
Dorothy Lane Market's Mail Order Department is an exciting way to send local and gourmet food gifts. Our most popular gift year over year is our Ohio Artisan Gift Box. It features Urban Stead Cheese, Maverick Chocolates, North Country Charcuterie, Prospect Jam, Dorothy Lane Market's famous Buckeye Candies and Premium Mixed Nuts as well as our one and only Killer Brownies. We ship our local treasures Nationwide!
Chocolats Latour
Send the gift of creative chocolates: dark, milk, or white (vegan) chocolate bars, hot chocolate mixes, handpainted truffles, and almond or cashew brittle made in Northside, Cincinnati.
Bee Haven
Sam and Scott are local beekeepers and artisans. Find the creations they make with all things bees at the store across from Findlay Market. Buy local honey, beautiful beeswax candles, and skin salves in all shapes and sizes. Stop by the shop at 1815 Elm Street.
Ilan's Raw Chocolates
Handmade in Mariemont these chocolates are made of carefully selected organic ingredients and are as healthy as they are delicious. Made of unroasted cacao & cacao butter (from the Amazon in Peru), homemade in small batches to ensure the highest quality and consistency in taste. Choose from 9 flavors to build your own box at $20. Naturally organic, kosher certified, gluten-free & vegan, & keto-friendly, Ilan's Raw Chocolate is a healthy treat for the most discerning of chocolate-lovers.
Jaybird Farms
Jaybird Farms loves to grow herbs and flowers! Lavender is our favorite! We make bouquets, wreaths, dried flower arrangements, herbal blends and even jams and jellies, using our homegrown items. Try something new and tasty. Our herbal blends make excellent gifts, to give, or keep for yourself! Shop our online store anytime.
Hands-On Classes
Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center
Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center is a historic, 101 year old organization that offers a wide variety of cooking, art, and yoga classes on its campus located in the heart of the Historic Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, KY. Its state-of-the-art teaching kitchen hosts classes such as: parent/child team classes, date nights, specialty workshops, garden to table classes, summer camps and more.
Solid Ground Studio
Not your everyday blacksmith. Kate Demske combines traditional and modern techniques to create heirloom ironwork and sculpture. Now you can join Kate in her Cincinnati studio to get creative & pound some metal. Classes for ages 12 & up, plus family classes, and monthly ladies only night!
Reading Material
Edible Ohio Valley Subscription
Send the gift of Edible to friends or family. Sign them up for 1, 2, or 3 years and we’ll start them off with the current issue along with a gift card on your behalf. The billing address will be your information and shipping address will be theirs. Don’t forget to leave a special note!