Find the Perfect Gifts and Stocking Stuffers at Your Nearby Farmer’s Market
We love our local farmers markets. They not only have the best farm-fresh produce but tons of other delicious, beautiful and unique finds! With the holidays right around the corner, consider looking to your local farmers market for gifts and stocking stuffers. With so many artisans in one place, you’re sure to find that perfect something for the people on your list!
Garden Classic Dill Pickles, Sweet Potato and Spicy Pineapple from Lillie Mae’s
For Food Lovers
Farmers’ markets are gold mines for delicious produce and other savory treats. You can find all sorts of unique products that you’re unlikely to find anywhere else! They make the perfect gifts for your foodie friend or an item that you can bring to that intimate holiday gathering. Just get ready for everyone to ask where you got it!
Lillie Mae’s Blue Ribbon Pickles
Voted one of the best food items in Phoenix, you definitely don’t want to miss Lillie Mae’s Blue Ribbon Pickles. They have different kinds of award-winning pickles, as well as other pickled goodies like garlic, asparagus, and beets. You also don’t want to miss their fruit options like lavender blueberries and spicy pineapple. They’re delicious, and you’ll be craving them once you try them!
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Sonoran Scavengers
Sonoran Scavengers creates distinctive flavors of jellies, jams, and syrups, as well as gluten-free flour options—all from produce that they have personally scavenged and harvested from the wild! They’re a great healthy alternative to over-processed, refined sugar-filled brands. And what a unique gift! Surprise your foodie friends with gems like prickly pear orange, vegan mint, and cardamom grapefruit jellies or flours like red quinoa and blue corn.
Find at: Old Town Scottsdale, Phoenix Uptown Market, Verde Valley Farmers Market
AZ Queen Bee Honey
Who doesn’t love honey? The AZ Queen Bee, Audra Waddle, has been keeping bees and harvesting honey and wax for years and she has shared her love with products like creamed honey, honey gift bundles, body products, beeswax wraps, and jars! These products are sustainable and make for great stocking stuffers. Does a loved one have a bee problem? Queen Bee also relocates feral bees!
Find at: Chandler Farmers Market
Hernandez Farms and Lupe’s Tamales
Hernandez Farms is family owned and operated by Ruben and Maria Hernandez and their 8 children and 17 grandchildren. Everyone pitches in to help grow their beautiful produce! Everything they produce is natural—they don’t use pesticides or herbicides. They take all this deliciousness and turn it into tamales! Tamales are perfect this time of year, and Lupe’s Tamales are made with home-grown chile sauces and homemade flour or corn tortillas, all from the Hernandez family farm. You can also buy their fresh salsas and agua frescas. It’s a perfect gift for your food-loving friends and family.
Find at: Prescott Farmers Market
The Tuscany Bread Dipping Sauce mix from Gibson’s Spice Rack
Bring on the Flavor
One of the most important parts of cooking is seasonings! If you’re tired of the same old, same old, and ready to “spice” things up, you’ll definitely want to check these out. Help a friend elevate their cooking or send a subtle hint by gifting any of these delicious seasonings from local vendors.
Salts from the Earth
Owned by Robert Lievens, Salts from the Earth utilizes Pink Himalayan salt as a base for his wide range of salts! Pink Himalayan salt has a smoother, less biting flavor than your regular table salt, and it contains more of the minerals your body needs to function correctly. With flavors ranging from applewood smoked to espresso to saffron and fennel, Lievens has made combinations that work for any type of meal. His website contains descriptions of the flavors and what kinds of food they pair best with if you need any inspiration or direction.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Gibson’s Spice Rack
You shouldn’t have to pay an arm and a leg for good spices! Gibson’s Spice Rack is dedicated to providing high-quality spices, seasonings, and rubs at prices everyone can afford. You can find all your basic spices, such as paprika, basil, and nutmeg along with options like herbs de Provence, blackened seasoning, and Chinese five-spice. Looking for meat specific rubs? They have a huge variety with combinations like Austin Steak Rubs, Deep South Dry Rub, and Flippin’ the Bird. Get one, three, or more for the meat lover in your life!
Find at: Heirloom Farmers Market at Rillito Park and Rincon Valley
Uncle Wayne’s Gourmet Salt and Seasonings
If you like it hot, then Uncle Wayne’s Gourmet Salt and Seasonings have to be on your list! With salts called Rip Your Face Off and Trinidad Scorpion, this local business knows how to bring the heat. For those with a more mild palate, they also have options like lime garlic, bloody Mary seasonings, and dessert spices. Need a recommendation? Reach out on their Facebook page.
Find at: Heirloom Market Place at Oro Market
SeeSalt
SeeSalt offers a different take on salt. Instead of being a regular seasoning, SeeSalt sells finishing salts. They use fleur de sel, a top layer of salt that is hand-harvested off the coast of Ile de Re, France. It’s great on top of chocolates, margaritas, guacamole, and more! It has a much more delicate taste and is a perfect last addition to really push your dish over the edge.
Find at: AJ’s Fine Foods
Give Me All the Sweets!
We all know one (or we are one!), the one who can never satisfy their sweet tooth. Lucky for them, sweets are a specialty at farmers’ markets! Whether they like candy, baked goods, or sweet teas and drinks, you can find ‘em all at your local market.
Shrubwell Drink Mixers
Shrubwell creates delightful drink mixers that you can add to just about anything. They have concocted 8 unique flavors, such as plum, date and rosemary and watermelon, fennel, and lime, that come in 8oz and 16oz options. Shrubwell mixers are handmade in small batches with a unique blend of ripe fruits, fresh botanicals, whole spices, and organic aged vinegar. They’re highly concentrated, so a little goes a long way! Whether your loved one is an alcohol drinker or not, these mixers are the perfect addition to any sweet tooth’s kitchen.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Bella’s Candy Shoppe
Bella’s Candy Shoppe transforms classic candies into something new: they freeze-dry them! If your loved one can’t have sticky or chewy candy, then this is the perfect gift for them. When the candy is freeze-dried, it turns into something light and crunchy rather than sticky and gooey. They have freeze-dried skittles, taffy, bit-o-honey, milk duds, and so much more!
Find at: Chandler Farmers Market
Artisan Treats
A great way to show your love and appreciation is with chocolate! Artisan Treats look and taste amazing—they use Belgian techniques and even make the jams that are sometimes at the center. They have euro-truffles, chocolate-dipped soft caramels, and nut brittles. Read: they have the perfect gifts for the sweet tooth in your life!
Find at: Chandler Farmers Market
Sonoran Blossom Tea
Tea is a great way to satisfy your sweet tooth, and it has other awesome health benefits too! Sonoran Blossom Tea has a wide variety of all kinds of tea. They even host tea parties for the special events in your life! So, you can give the gift of tea or the gift of a fun tea party. They also have tea accessories available.
Find at: Chandler Farmers Market
Just a few of the apron options at Aprons by Lee
For the Kitchen Fanatic
If there’s one thing that 2020 brought into focus is that more of us are spending time in the kitchen, and some of us are channeling our inner chef that we never knew existed until now. For those who have embraced their culinary craft, a kitschy kitchen gadget may be just up their alley.
Fallen Wood Turnings by Robert Lievens
Robert’s handmade wooden spoons and kitchen utensils bring an artistic flair and a local vibe to the kitchen. Each piece is made from found, donated, or fallen wood of the urban forest, with only sawdust, left behind for composting.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Aprons by Lee
So many stains would have been eliminated if we’d only followed our grandma’s lead: wear an apron! Making a pasta sauce from scratch while wearing white jeans or our favorite outfit? An Apron by Lee is a stylish and smart answer to remedying those unnecessary clothing disasters caused in the kitchen.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Oh So Enchanting Bags and Totes
For friends and family members who are regulars in the farmers market scene, give them a farmers market bag that fits their personality from Oh So Enchanting. These super cute bags/totes also make great gift bags to be loaded with all kinds of farmers market goodies.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Lip balm, sugar scrub and the radiant facial oil featured in Marie Claire from m+a naturals
Glowing Skin and Healthy Bod
We all have them on our list: the body guru. The one who has an endless supply of beauty and skincare products stashed in their medicine cabinets and bathroom closets. This holiday season, gift them with some locally crafted skincare products.
Daisy G’s Handcrafted Soaps and Skincare
Daisy G understands the love/hate we share for our Southwestern home: while we love the smells and desert terrain, we do hate the havoc it creates on our skin (especially in the summer). Their line of soaps, lotions, and skincare products was formulated to address these things and are made using natural, locally sourced ingredients from the Sonoran Desert.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
m+a naturals
A wonderfully scented line of skincare products made from only essential oils, minerals, and other ingredients from the earth that offer the body what it needs throughout the day to achieve its potential. This curated line is made to restore the mind, body, and spirit...and was recently featured in Marie Claire!
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Desert Alchemist Medicinal Mushrooms
Guess what we’re gifting ourselves this year? A tincture or two from Desert Alchemist. Desert Alchemist is a natural medicine vendor who produces extracts from wild foraged or locally grown mushrooms and plants that possess remarkable healing properties without harmful side effects.
Find at: Heirloom Farmers Market at Green Valley, Rillito Park, Oro Valley, and Udall Park
Happy Goats and Goods
Happy goats are the key to the healing qualities found in this vendor’s line of all natural lotions and soaps made with goat's milk and essential oils, as well as an all natural-underarm deodorant...a must try and an excellent stocking stuffer!
Find at: Cornville Farmers Market
The Coconut Dream mini CBD bath bomb from Sativa Soap Shoppe
Old Creek Apple Company
Specializing in herbal apple cider vinegar, elixirs, magnesium lotions, and immune defense products, Old Creek Apple Co is the perfect booth stop when shopping for that earthy naturalist in your life.
Find at: Cornville Farmers Market
Sativa Soap Shoppe
Now...this is the bomb! Artisan-made, full-spectrum cbd and hemp oil bath bombs made in Safford, Arizona. Need we say more?
Find at: Gila Valley Farmers Market
Herbs from the Heart
A one-stop-shop for natural healing! Herbs from the Heart offers an amazing line of natural pain relievers, as well as tinctures, teas, soaps, spritzers, syrups, elixirs, sacred smudges, and more!
Find at: Sunnyside Market
WickIt Love Candle Company
Scent is one of the most powerful of our five senses. That's why the smell of things like a campfire or fresh baked cookies can evoke a strong response. Smelling a fragrance can trigger a treasured memory or provoke enjoyable thoughts. WickIt Candles offers a great array of scents to bring you back in time to that special place and moment.
Find at: Chandler’s Farmers Market
Some beautiful necklaces from Unique Naturals
Jewels and Bling
A word from the wise: you can never go wrong with a piece of jewelry, especially if it’s lovingly made, unique looking, and a rare find. If you’re shooting for the “omg, where did you get this?” response then check out these vendors!
Locally Clayed
These small-batch polymer clay pieces are not only stylish ear jewels but are created to empower women around the world. Each purchase supports the Elusitweni Women’s Home in eSwatini, Southern Africa that provides protective shelter for women in need.
Find at: Chandler’s Farmer’s Market
Unique Naturals
Made by fourth-generation stonecutters, each jewelry piece is dazzling, handmade, and the gems, especially the turquoise, is untouched, pure, not stabilized, and not dyed. These magical jewelers do all of their own sterling silverwork and copper work and can make your custom piece a reality.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Mountain Found Designs
Each jewelry piece is mountain-inspired, solar-powered, and made by the hands of a mobile silversmith. The drool-worthy designs are wild-crafted using 100% recycled silver and local southwest stones.
Find at: Prescott Farmers Market
A garland kit from Casita Curated Play
Cool Art and Artisan Creations
Sometimes, the person you’re shopping for is the one who has everything and needs nothing, which leaves you on a goose chase, hunting for something unique and one-of-a-kind. For the person in your life who you struggle to shop for, we offer these suggestions.
Casita Curated Play
For the parents with young children who have great minimal style and prefer more natural toys for the kiddos, Casita Curated Play offers seasonal and thematic sensory kits that are uber-cute and come in latched wooden boxes— that include authentic, open-ended play parts and sensory accessories.
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
Practical Art
Practical Art is hands down the place where you must stop when you need something unique and different to gift. Their curated offerings are 100% locally made and produced by Arizona artisans. So many amazing treasures here!
Find at: Phoenix Uptown Market
This is just a small sampling of the endless and amazing treasures that await you at your local farmers market. Take a stroll outdoors and enjoy the lovely weather, grab a coffee or a snack, and support your local community this holiday season by purchasing your holiday gifts at a nearby farmers markets!