04/21/2026
Last but certainly not least I need to spotlight my son, Evan! Evan is the reason for these fairs. There would not be a Warwick children’s business fair if not for this guy!! He has always been money motivated and when he wants something he works for it. Years ago, he had a business making flower arrangements he would sell them on the side of the road in front of our house and even had a deal worked out with the corner Café in Orange, where he would bring flower arrangements in and put them on their tables for sale weekly. He was probably 6 or7 at the time. About four years ago, Pure Eats Artisan Treats was born! Evan was saving up for a Nintendo switch and he came up with this business and some very unique gluten-free items to sell. We actually signed up for another a children’s business fair in the area that was canceled at the last minute. We were super disappointed because he already had hundreds of dollars invested and all of his products made. But I taught him to adapt and overcome, and we reached out to our community and he was able to have a few different pop-up sales that weekend and sell out of all of his products! He made enough money to buy that Nintendo switch!
After that experience, I started thinking about doing my own fair…. I knew that it would be a big undertaking because I’m a “go big or go home kind of person” but I saw how much Evan grew and learned from that experience and I knew that I had to do it! That is how the first WCBF fair in 2024 was born!
Somewhere around this time, Evan decided that he wanted to build a clubhouse, but he priced out the lumber and realized that lumber was outrageous and he found out that it was actually cheaper to buy a camper so he set that goal and after selling at multiple events, he raised enough money to buy himself a camper! yes there is a thirtyish Foot travel trailer in my backyard that is decked out with a TV and all kinds of cool stuff that is his man cave😆
His products have evolved and some have changed over the years, but his staple items are his phenomenal jumbo brown butter rice crispy treats, and his absolutely delicious gluten-free chocolate chip cookies !! He started dabbling with freeze dried candy after we purchased a freeze dryer for our family a couple of years ago and he soon realized that freeze dried candy was a fantastic novelty item that lots of people loved so this year he incorporated a lot more freeze dried candy into his offerings.
 he did so well at the fair this year he sold out of just about everything! Actually, when we were cleaning up, I received a Facebook message from someone who had come to the fair, when she got home, her teenage son who didn’t come to the fair was bummed that he didn’t get the freeze dried skittles and he wanted to buy whatever Evan had left for his high school baseball team! This one person purchased 35 bags of freeze dried skittles! We delivered that night. 
The community support for this event has been absolutely amazing and while I will admit it is exhausting and at times I want to quit it is one of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done and it’s all because of this 14-year-old! 💕
* don’t tell him you saw this post. He’ll be mad at me and embarrassed, but I’m Mom and I can brag about him if I want to 😜
