In the event you haven’t found Rabbit Creek Market, this is able to be a good time to go to the store, with sprawling showrooms that includes about 75 distributors promoting antiques, classic and hand-crafted gadgets, furnishings, collectibles, indicators, clothes, vinyl information together with a number of meals gadgets and snacks.
Catch the Bread Man, recognized from the Downtown Market, right here on Saturdays. You’ll additionally discover selfmade treats from jellies and jams from Marie’s Jelly Jams & Herbs. Rose Marie Garrison additionally sells her selfmade merchandise on the Frenchtown Farmers’ Market.
The store simply retains getting higher and greater, not in dimension because it’s already 15,000 sq. ft, however practically doubling its listing of distributors since Rabbit Creek, situated on Capital Circle, opened Nov. 1.
The store was truly impressed by the entrepreneurial imaginative and prescient of Ethan Miller, 11.
“He needed to have a enterprise and he stored asking me about it,” stated his mother, Renee Miller, proprietor of Rabbit Creek Market.
Miller can be the chief director of Metropolis Stroll City Mission, which “works with the homeless, ex-offenders, households and people in disaster.”
She and her husband based the mission, which oversees transitional housing, a work and re-entry program, meals distribution, disaster intervention and pastoral care. The mission’s thrift store can be its chief supply of funding.
Desperate to encourage her son, over the summer time, Ethan and Renee watched YouTube movies, bought some paint and offered some gadgets on the fairgrounds.
“We spent a lot of time making stuff and I needed to place it someplace,” stated Miller, mom of seven youngsters starting from 6 to 27. “I believed possibly we might put it in a part of a market however I appeared and I couldn’t discover something native like this.”
So she and her son launched Rabbit Creek Market, however that wasn’t all for the Millers.
Son Mason, 9, needed to launch a line known as Mason’s Marmalades, so now these jars at the moment are on the cabinets at Rabbit Creek Market, together with Mason’s manufacturers of salsas, pepper jellies and candy spreads. .
“We’ve been promoting the mess out of Mason’s Marmalades,” stated Renee,
Now Kimberly, 6, stated she will probably be providing a line of garments known as Kimberoos.
“The mascot will probably be a kangaroo holding the signal Kimberoos,” Kimberly instructed me whereas I used to be visiting the shop.
I additionally met Liconya Gilbert, who owns the Tallahassee firm, Cupcake Array, and acquired a combine to make Snickerdoodle cookies and a few edible cookie decorations. Saadiq Khali affords vegan cookies and brownies and gluten-free cookies from his native Plant Bass Meals. Kristen Minnich, who runs Rustic Creations Artwork and Dragonfly Farm with Angie Dean, simply began promoting merchandise at Rabbit Creek Market. They’ve a lot of botanical merchandise, flavored vinegars and ending salt and sugar.
Different treats embody BNutty gourmand peanut butter, fudge, Smores chocolate bars, oils, vinegars, spices and sugar, baked items, gadgets from RedEye Espresso and plenty extra.
I count on we’ll see an rising variety of native distributors represented on the market. The place appears particularly festive with Christmas decorations nevertheless it’s a enjoyable place to buy any time of the 12 months.
Rabbit Creek Market is at 2811 Capital Circle NE; 850-765-5146.https://www.rabbitcreekmarket.com/ Open 10 to six p.m. Monday to Saturday, midday to six p.m. Sunday. Open 10 a.m. to three p.m. Christmas Eve; closed Christmas and New Yr’s Day.
