Local Small Business Spot Light
Featured Local Small Business
I love to support my local small businesses.
One way I do that is by helping to get the word out about our area small businesses.
I would love to put your small business in the spot light!
Tanner Creek Farm
It was her fairy tale wedding come true.
My daughter, Sophia, was so excited to tell me about the perfect venue she had found for her upcoming wedding.
She couldn’t wait to check out Tanner Creek Farm and asked me to tag along to see if it was all she hoped it would be.
We were greeted by Nick and Grace, the owner’s son and daughter-in-law.
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Cindy's Cake Shop
Talk to anyone in the Canton, NY area, and they will rave about Cindy’s Cake Shop.
Everyone in the North Country has heard of Cindy’s. Many residents don’t remember a time when Cindy’s Cake Shop wasn’t around!
People near and far are huge fans of Cindy’s homemade cakes and cookies.
You can walk into practically any store for miles around the North County and see the now iconic bags of Cindy’s Cake Shop cookies for sale.
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Woody's Market
Living in a small town has its benefits and having a small-town family-owned store like, Woody’s Market in Hermon, New York is definitely one of those big benefits.
Mr. Jim Woodrow opened the doors to Woody’s Market for the first time on February 4, 1997.
Woody’s Market has always been a very family-oriented business.
At the age of 24, Tracey Woodrow, the current owner, managed her father’s store from day one.
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Lavigne's IGA
I like to call our little IGA stores the best-kept secret in the North Country!
The LaVigne brothers, Kirk and Todd, are not new to the grocery store business.
Their father started his first store back in the ’80s when the boys were young, so they literally grew up in this business.
Life isn’t always easy for our little hometown supermarket.
Big businesses, like Walmart, tend to overshadow our small, hometown Mom & Pop stores.
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Farr's Greenhouse
Small town, local businesses are the backbone of this country.
It is family-owned businesses, like Farr’s Greenhouse that make living in the North Country such a joy.
In the Beginning
June Dow was the original owner of June’s Greenhouse just outside of Russell, New York.
June started the business way back in the early 1960s.
Patricia Farr went into partnership with June in 1977 and ended up buying the business outright in 1978.
Patricia is the mother of today’s current owner, Morgan Farr.
Morgan literally grew up in the greenhouse business. He would actually leave school early on spring days to rush home to help with the seemingly endless work that awaited in the greenhouse.
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5 B's Photography
I am always excited to write a review post on a local, small business, but I am super excited to be featuring my oldest daughter, Jaimie’s business!
5 B’s Photography offers top-notch, professional photos for all of your photography needs.
Memories.
That has always been one of the top things I focused on while raising my 12 children.
Making memories is still in the forefront of my mind now that I’m a grandmother of many.
My own grandmother once told me that looking forward fifty years is an eternity, but looking back fifty years is a blink.
Time really does fly.
Grandma loved to capture everyday moments with pictures.
I know because, as a child, I was Grandma’s personal photographer.
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Silver Leaf Diner
Silver Leaf could easily change its name to The North Country’s Family Restaurant.
If you are from the North Country, then chances are high that you have dined at the Silver Leaf.
Silver Leaf is one of the North Country’s favorite places.
Loretta Thayer, or as we like to call her, Grandma, started out as a worker for many years at the Silver Leaf diner.
After working year after year as an employee and manager of the diner, Grandma took over the restaurant in 2002.
Traci Kirker, today’s Silver Leaf owner, spent much of her teen years working at her Grandmother’s diner.
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PT's Market
There’s a new deli in Dekalb Junction, and the community couldn’t be happier!
When Tami and Dave French made their official Facebook announcement that they would be opening a deli in Dekalb Junction, the cheers went up all over the place.
What!
Where?
When?
Yay!
And many Congratulations were being yelled across the world of Facebook.
The community was super excited and more than ready to get out there and support the French family in their new adventure.
The proof is in the pudding, or in this case the pizza.
PT’s Market sold their 100th pizza on their 8th day of business.
Exactly two weeks from the day they opened, they sold their 200th pizza!
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Tree of Life Bookstore
Tucked away in the countryside of West Potsdam is a little slice of heaven.
It’s a literal piece of God’s country hidden away from the rest of the hustle and bustle of the North Country.
So much so that many of us may have never even realized this little bookstore even existed.
I am hoping this little article changes that and you take the time to stop over to check out the Tree of Life Christian Bookstore for yourself.
*Fun Fact – The Tree of Life Bookstore building was the last original one-room schoolhouse in St. Lawrence County to close. It was built in the 1840s.
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