11/30/2024
On this small business Saturday, I'm posting links to some of the pages I follow who have items for sale that make great gifts. This list will be long, but I know I will be missing some, so please feel free to comment with links to your favorite pages with items for sale or gift ideas below!
● Starting with books! Books make wonderful gifts and a few of my friends who have books for sale include:
Rachel Gabel - order the new cow bios book!
Jamie Forbes
Clear Creek Ranch Mom
Prairie Crocus Creative
Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason
David Golden - Author
Bryan Jones - Sandhills book
100 Things To Do In The Nebraska Sandhills Before You Die
Secrets of the Sandhills
Her View From Home - So God made a Grandmother
Michael Forsberg -whooping cranes
Bison Books - Sandhills book
Laura Hicks - book about ranching in south Dakota
Stephanie Grace Whitson
Mary Wernke
●Magazine subscriptions make terrific gifts that continue all year! A few magazines that my friends and I have been featured in include:
Nebraska Life Magazine
Nebraskaland Magazine
FarmGirl Press
Our Living Journal Magazine
Working Ranch Magazine
●Photos and calendars are great gifts as well! I have calendars available with a link and post pinned at the top of my page. Other photographers with gifts, prints, and calendars available that I follow include:
Carney Photography // Midwest Drone Photographer
Audrey Powles Photography - unique prints and check out her cows in Hats fine art photos!
D E Grabenstein Photography has calendars
A. Hixon Photography - calendars
Chris H Petersen Photography
Mat Custer - has an Etsy page with prints
C.R. Hatch Farms - highland cows!
Van Newkirk Herefords - beautiful hereford calendar
● Don't forget the gift of eats! Beef makes a great gift, so look for a local farmer or rancher with beef for sale. I will link a few that I follow, some will ship!
Lazy S Triangle - this feed store in Ravenna has lots of cute merchandise and gifts!
Whitewater Beef
Circle L Ranch - has a feed store in Bridgeport with lots of cute gifts and she will ship Double A Feeds, Inc
Family Farm Beef Box - shoutout to Cozad and a family I went to church with growing up! This is a wonderful family and will ship beef packages
Triangle M Ranch
Flying Diamond Beef
VanWinkle Ranch
Janie VanWinkle - See Jane Ranch
Odea
Blondie’s Farm Co. - Sarah has lots of other meat and local food available near Hemingford, Nebraska
Strategy Bison - locally raised Bison meat for sale
● Other unique gifts, including coffee, toys, honey and more!
Chandler's Sandhill Honey - local honey always makes a wonderful gift
Bean Broker Coffee House and Pub - coffee and gifts
Anthem Coffee, Thedford, NE - delicious coffee and lots of gift items!
Winstons Prairie Wreaths - custom wreaths from prairie grasses
Calinda's Pot Shop & Art Gallery - beautiful artwork and unique gifts
Rachel Brownlee Fine Art - high end western artwork
Ranch Chic Corral - fun western clothing and gifts
Ocean of Grass-Life on a Nebraska Sandhills Ranch - DVD for sale about the sandhills
Toms Toys and Treasures - custom wooden toys and gifts, so amazing and located in Nebraska
Schnell's Crafts, Crops & Critters - a former student has the cutest custom stitched items
Prairie Girl Candle Co. - some of my favorite candles. No, not my shop, but Amanda is a Nebraska girl!
Wagon Wheel Homestead - sells soaps, candles, lotion bars, etc. from north of Valentine, Nebraska
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• Lauzons Fairburns and Fossils - has a shop in Chadron Nebraska with agates and other unique gifts available
• Klitter Meadows - north of Ashby has goats milk soap, goat milk shampoo bars, goat milk lotion, beard balm and oil, lip balm, and crotcheted items including dish cloths, pot scrubbies, makeup remover facial cloths, and pot holders
• Niobrara Valley Vineyards - wine makes a good gift, and they have upcoming tastings at Columbus, Chadron, Valentine, Alliance, Omaha, and North Platte during December!
• Morgan’s Hunting, Fishing, and Gun Supply. - not only guns but clothing, books, boots and hats, cards and other unique Sandhills items, located in Ellsworth
• Flourishing Farms - handmade lotion from beef tallow, I love this stuff!!
• Branded Heart - fun, western handmade gifts, be sure to check out the wreaths made from ropes and greenery! So cool!
• Wildflour Grocer - near Oneill Nebraska and has lots of unique Nebraska-made items, local meat, soaps and lotions, etc.
• Housewife in the Good Life - near Trenton, Nebraska and will be posting ornament painting parties, this would be a doubly great gift! Fun to attend and a gift to gics after!
• H Bar L Customs - wild rags and other custom gifts, my favorite wild rags!
• Lazy H Crown Cattle - check out those tatted ornaments 😍
•The Minted Mess - located near Chadron has candles, soaps and mustache wax
• Prairie Through The Lens - give the gift of a floral subscription! Located near Merriman
• Niobrara Grain and Milling is a certified organic flour mill located in Valentine
•Setting D Ranch LLC (Clarissa Nutt-Feldman) great Nebraska people with great Nebraska meat
•Soaking Goddess in Scottsbluff for homemade bath bombs
• Rafter 7S - homemade jams and jellies from the Sandhills
☆Again, if you have items for sale or have a favorite you follow that has items for sale, please share below. I know my list is not comprehensive and I apologize if I missed anyone. Hoping to help out some friends and locals today with this post, and maybe give everyone some alternative gift ideas for the holidays!
