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Cake by Alissa

 Noelle Jackson Soaps

 Pleasant Valley Farm

Battenkill Valley Creamery

Earthly Remedies by Erin

 Bard Farm

 Moses Farm

 Argyle Cheese Farmer

 Nettle Meadow

 Klein's Kill Fruit Farm

 Yancey’s Sugarbush

 Goose Island Potatoes

 Grillo Essentials

 4 Grove Candles

 Saratoga Peanut Butter

 Heidelberg Bread

 D&J Farms

 Puckers

 Saratoga Spicery

 Vital Eats

 Second Chance Fibers

 Rupert’s Rising Breads

 Parvisani

 Greenwich Journal and Salem Press

 The Gardeners of Coveville Road

 Bryan's Orchard

 RJ's Woodworking

 Heritage Wings Farm

 Sundaes Best Hot Fudge Sauce

 Stoney Mountain Farm & Garden

 Willow-Marsh Farm

 Herringtons Farm

 Amigos Cantina

 Holmquest Farm

 Lightsimplegoods

 The Ashdown Project —Acoustic Music

 Simply Kombucha

 Revibe

 Breathe Diffuser Jewelry

 Happy Labs Apiary

 Burgers Marketgarden

 Road Less Traveled Needle Felting

 Mad Marty

 The Gaillery

 Hill Country Observer

 Saratoga Chips

 Forever Wild Creations

 The Alleged Farm

 Small Town Cultures

 Violet Rose Illustrations

 Harlem Hill

 Cards by Lucy

 Saratoga Apple

 Saratoga Today Newspaper

 Luce Farm

 Michael Whitney

 Boy with the Bee

 True North Granola

 Tom Hutchinson Woodworking

 Roger Holmes Woodworking

 Saratoga Natural Body Care

 Suzanne Wyckoff

 RebelWood Soapworks

 Handmade by RedMade

 R. Jackson Booties

 Stephen Goldblatt


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