CRAFTS & ARTISANS
Our artisans bring beautiful, hand crafted works to the PRFM. With incredible experience crafting things such as pottery, jewelry, soaps, stained glass, and so much more, our artisans bring so many beautiful things to sell to our customers.
Also at the market (bios coming soon):
Washburn Island Soaps
Curiously Made
Bittersweet Botanicals & Friends
Bittersweet Botanicals & Friends brings together the collective works of four botanically inspired Peterborough makers. Bittersweet Botanicals provides handmade cocktail and medicinal bitters from organic and wildcrafted plants. Meowlinda creates ultra cute, handmade vegan soaps. Lavish & Lush Plants provides lush tropical houseplants and a whack load of knowledge on keeping them alive. Shannon Taylor’s artwork, known throughout the Kawarthas, is charged with nostalgia and showcases plants and landscapes from the surrounding area.
Contacts: Jillian Marshall, Melinda Richter, Rachel Friesen, Shannon Taylor
City Of Peterborough
Distance to the market = 1.3-1.9km
Contact: jillian@bittersweetbotanicals.ca
Instagram: @bittersweetbotanicals @meowlindameow @lavishandlushplants @shannonmicheletaylor
Products: Cocktail bitters, Medicinal Bitters and Tinctures, Elderberry Syrup, Cocktail Syrups, Handmade Soap, Soap subscriptions, Tropical House Plants, Handmade Plant Pots, Plant Care, Original Paintings, Botanical Drawings, Landscape Paintings, Cards
Curiously Made
Pottery COLLECTIVE
The Pottery Collective includes four different potters from the Kawartha Potters Guild who sell their pottery at market on a rotating basis. Each potter produces excellent, high quality, unique work, and shares a similar philosophy and enthusiasm for interacting with the public, as well as dedication to their art. The four potters are Carolyn Cisco, Kristina Albright, Cathy Allen, and Priya Harding.
Contact: Carolyn Cisco
carolyn.13@live.com 705.743.8882
Facebook@kawarthapottersguild
Instagram@kpgpottery
Product: All pottery has been completely produced by each local potter. Items might include hand made bowls, plates, cups, mugs, jewellery, garlic graters, yarn bowls, etc. Clay is purchased at the nearest source, Toronto. And all potters use locally made, food safe glazes, and fire their work in local studios.