Happy Holidays 2025!
We’ve asked our customers to share some of their best holiday gift ideas. We’ll be adding to it all season!
Great Lakes Tinned Fish introduced its Smoked Whitefish with Lemon and Dill just in time for your appetizer table. Taste what Midwest Living says will elevate your cheese board, as well as the wonderfulness of Great Lakes fish, where 100% of the fish is sourced!
Taste It Yourself!
The Great Northern Christmas Festival is a two-weekend celebration of holiday magic, community spirit, and festive cheer. Held across two enchanting weekends in December, this family-friendly event transforms the snowy landscape into a twinkling village of wonder and joy.
The Great Northern Christmas Festival
Spence Alverson is more than happy to help you find fishing gear. And hiking gear and camping gear and clothing gear. He owns Little Forks Outfitters in downtown Midland – and also guides some of the most scrumptious trips you can dream of. Stop in for some beautiful – and useful – winter wear and gain some fishing knowledge while you’re there. Shop online as well!
Little Forks Outfitters
The Christmas gift boxes from Brinks Family Creamery are as beautiful as they are legendary. Boxes include cheese curds (your choice), eggnog or chocolate milk, summer sausage and jerky, candy and an ornament – and come in different sizes. You can also customize meat boxes!
When you love your Baby Bogs, and they still fit, give them some love! Jovan Johnson at Gumballs Boutique can give Baby Bogs new life for a mere $5!
See For Yourself!
Bailey Knight tear
ed up when she realized she’d perfected the cinnamon rolls she’d been striving for – for years! They are now available at Honey Haven Baking Co. in Marquette and, just like everything else at this wonderful bakery, they’re gluten-free and delicious!
Eat More Cinnamon Rolls
The best gifts are made with love, and Kalamazoo Dry Goods has all the supplies you need. Owner Rebecca Macleery says, “It’s such an important time for small businesses like this one so I’m doing my very best to have plenty of what you need and a diverse enough range for everyone on your list.” Stop by this charming store, 833 W. South, for supplies, gifts, and unlimited ideas!
You Can Shop Online Too!
Jimmie Garant’s Party Store in Alpena is posting the 25 Drinks of Christmas and they are sublime! Way back when, on Day 1, we fell in love with the Deep Eddy Cranberry Mule. So cozy, yet refreshing. See all the entries on their Facebook page and Merry Stirring and Shaking!
Check it out on Facebook
The kind and knowledgeable staff at Uproot Market and Eatery has all sorts of ideas for gift-giving season! Are you a fan of curated baskets? Need nourishing stocking stuffers? Want to send the coffee lovers you love over the moon? Head to 119 West Michigan Avenue, Battle Creek, now open 7 days a week, and tell everyone we said Hi!
Who doesn’t need more compost in their life? And why not have the best, made from your very own food scraps! Wormies Vermicompost in Grand Rapids will come to your house and pick up YOUR CHOICE of bin, full of the worms’ favorite foods, and return with vermicompost to please all your plants.Subscribe Today!
Last-minute gift that gives all year long! Get in on Tastefull Vegan Ice Cream’s Pint of the Month Club. Each month you’ll receive 2 pints of ice cream, one vanilla and the featured flurry pint of the month.
Ice Cream All Year
Poetess and Stranger has an entire zodiac’s worth of gifts, from books to soaps to balms and teas. Know an activist loner Aquarius, a gorgeous inside and out Libra, or a favorite up and down serious clown Gemini? 320 E Lake St, Petoskey, MI. 🥰❤️😘. As owner Sarah says, “Affordable, ethical, practical, beautiful.”
Poetess and Stranger
Let’s ALL celebrate Jolabokaflod! Jolabokaflod is an Icelandic Christmas tradition that involves exchanging and reading books on Christmas Eve and roughly translates to the “Christmas Book Flood.” Sleepy Dog Books is bringing this heartwarming tradition to Mount Pleasant. Bring a wrapped book (any genre, new or gently used) topped with your favorite chocolate.
📅Thursday, December 18, 2025 7:00pm
🗺️Sleepy Dog Books, 120 E. Broadway
