08/27/2026
🧡 SEVEN YEARS OF LOCAL: FOUR MORE BUSINESSES WE LOVE!
One of our favorite things about Farm Hippie has always been that there really isn't one definition of "local."
Local can mean something raised on a farm, baked in a kitchen, formulated from herbs, or dreamed up at a craft table. It can be practical, beautiful, delicious, useful, weird, wonderful—or sometimes all of those things at once.
Today's four businesses are a pretty fantastic example of exactly that.
🐑 The Shepherd's Gold LLC brings us products made with lanolin from sheep's wool, turning something incredibly traditional into beautiful, useful skincare. Their lineup of balms and creams is one of those wonderful reminders that some of the best ingredients aren't new inventions at all. Sometimes we're simply rediscovering what generations before us already knew—and putting it into a jar.
✨ BlackBerry Creek Designs brings the FUN. From sparkly badge reels and accessories to colorful creations with enough personality to make an ordinary workday considerably less boring, these are the little things you don't necessarily walk into Farm Hippie planning to buy...and then suddenly you're standing at the register with one. 😂 We fully support accessorizing your ID badge and making your car smell nice with a car freshie
🧁 Confections by Caroline has made it her mission to prove that gluten-free doesn't have to mean missing out. Cookies, muffins, sweet treats and even gluten-free, dairy-free POPTARTS live on her shelves—and yes, we absolutely felt that last one deserved capital letters. Caroline has built a loyal following by making the kinds of baked goods people with dietary restrictions are so often told they simply have to go without. Around here, we'd much rather give them dessert. ❤️
🌿 The Spicy Italian Herbalism & Apothecary is one of those vendors whose products make you stop and start reading labels. Herbal preparations, infused oils, body care, Tattoo Goo and a whole lot of knowledge go into a line that feels equal parts old-world apothecary and modern maker. Jalapeño-infused olive oil? Yep. Tattoo care? Also yep. This is exactly the kind of wonderfully unexpected range that makes shopping local so much more interesting than walking another big-box aisle.
And that's something we've thought about a lot during our seventh anniversary.
When you shop a small business, you're rarely just buying "a product." You're buying the result of somebody learning a skill, testing a recipe, raising an animal, perfecting a formula, ruining a batch, trying again, buying supplies, designing a label, staying up too late and eventually putting something they made into the world with their name attached to it.
Then somehow, all those individual stories end up together on our shelves.
That's Farm Hippie.
Today we're celebrating The Shepherd's Gold LLC, BlackBerry Creek Designs, Confections by Caroline and The Spicy Italian Herbalism & Apothecary—and we're awfully glad they're part of our story.
Seven years of local, and we still get excited every time somebody brings something through our doors that makes us say, "Okay, THAT is cool." ❤️