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.
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.
Dorothy Lane Market Ohio Artisan Gift Box
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!
Dault Pottery
Our stoneware ceramic creations unite function and artistry through surface design and alteration. Find mugs, bowls, platters, bud vases, and other creations at select local shows or through our online shop. Intentional pottery for intentional people to make your drinks, meals, and life more enjoyable.
Dohner Maple
We offer pure Ohio maple syrup in a variety of forms and flavor intensities. Our flavor-infused syrups and specialty products are ideal for the chef in your family, while others will love our traditional syrups and specialty products. Shop online, in Vandalia, or Dayton’s 2nd Street Market.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Myriad
Looking for something different? You’ve found it. Featuring locally handmade, upcycled fashion, vintage and high-end preowned clothing, handmade baby bonnets by The Urban Baby Bonnet, handmade jewelry, and truly unique and hard-to-find gifts for everyone in sunny Yellow Springs.
The Market @ be.
An entire building dedicated to a delicious, wellness-filled life. Stop in for a place to relax or quick meal of smoothies, grain bowls, boba teas, salads, dips, & baked goods. Gluten, dairy, and peanut-free friendly with vegan options. Find locally-sourced pantry staples and snacks.
Provisions Co.
A thoughtfully curated collection of goods designed to celebrate Ohio. Find useful, high-quality, and locally-made goods and beyond. Our collections include barware, kitchen goods, apparel, and a full line of spirits by A.M. Scott Distillery. Find us in Troy, London, and Plain City soon!
Get Your Hands Dirty
The Acres
Join The Acres’ chef, Chef Michael Kasak, for hands-on cooking demonstrations-smoking meats, perfecting sandwiches, and tailgate delights.
Siebenthaler’s Garden Centers
Shopping for someone else but not sure what to give them? Give the gift of gardening with a gift card to Siebenthaler’s! Gift cards are delivered by email and contain instructions to redeem them at checkout (no additional processing fees.)
Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center
Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center is a historic, 101 year old nonprofit 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
Solid Ground Studio is a woman-owned Design/Build and Teaching studio located on an urban farm only 15 minutes from downtown. Not your everyday blacksmith, Kate Demske combines traditional and modern techniques to create custom ironwork and sculpture. Now you can join Kate in her Cincinnati studio to get creative & pound some metal. She offers a range of classes for kids, families and a very popular monthly Ladies Night! Every class has a take home project plus a visit with the farm’s donkeys - Daisy & Hope. Gift Certificates available.
Arts & Culture
Dayton Art Institute
For over a century, we’ve been creating memories for the Miami Valley and beyond. One of the region’s premier fine arts museums, known for its remarkable art collection, world-class exhibitions, entertaining social events, and diverse educational programming. Gift a membership to DAI, for a lifetime of memories!
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!
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!