The PA Wilds Makers Market virtual shopping event is an annual marketplace tradition to help our customers kick off their holiday shopping and find unique gifts while supporting PA Wilds small businesses and creative Makers.
You can always feel good about your purchase on ShopThePAWilds.com because you are directly supporting this region’s woodworkers, painters, photographers, metalsmiths, herbalists, gardeners, designers, artists and more.
Learn more about the participating Makers and their special offerings on October 19th. Sign up for email reminders so you don’t miss it!
MEET PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES
Artwork by Julie Mader: Paint the PA Wilds and Uncle Penn's watercolor kit collections offer portable, obtainable, giftable opportunities to create, connected with the natural beauty of rural environments. New this holiday season, you can also send cheerful greetings to family and friends with prints Julie's art. The cards are accompanied by Green Seal Certified 100% PCW (Post Consumer Waste) recycled envelopes produced from Wind Power. The envelopes are Laser and inkjet compatible. Cards sets are packaged in a reusable acid free polypropelyne envelope.
- Offering 20% off of orders of 9+ greeting cards,
- Offering buy 2 watercolor kits, get 1 50% off or buy 5, get 1 free
Asaph Waters Editions: Carl Frederick Lawrenson grew up in Susquehanna, majoring in art ediucation in college, and since spending his life painting nature scenes. Shop prints of his paintings or get 56 in one coffee table book, which also features the stories behind them.
- New products added for the event
- Offering 10% off all prints
Biscuit Authority: It matters where the treats & chews we buy come from. That is why Laura put her heart & soul into sourcing ingredients right here in Pennsylvania. Biscuit Authority LLC was launched with the idea of bringing your pet the highest quality pet treats & chews farm to pet!
- New seller and products
Brady Photography: Offering you more than just prints, Steve's photography is an invitation to experience and share the beauty of the PA Wilds. Whether it's through a fine art piece adorning your wall or a greeting card sent to a loved one, each image is an echo of the wilderness, meant to inspire and transform your living space into a gallery of natural wonder.
- Offering 15% off all prints
Conklin Studio Pottery: Hand-sculpted items for garden and home are hand built from mid-high fire stoneware and porcelain clays and range from garden items such as toadstools and astrological symbols to magnets and figurines!
- New Mountain Laurel trinkets & PA Wilds snowflake ornaments
DLE Designs: Made in Williamsport, PA, these handcrafted creations combine Don Luke's love for wood and his desire for engraving into one.
- Offering free USA shipping
Elk & Walnut Creative Corner: Inspired by the PA Wilds and their families love for collecting souvenirs, Elk & Walnut Creative Corner creates one-of-a-kind souveniers for locals and visitors.
- Offering 10% off all products
- New products added for the event
Goot Essa: Amish-made, handcrafted, artisan cheese fresh from the farm in Howard, PA. Goot Essa, meaning "good food" or "good eating," creates small-batch cheeses, fudge, james, and honey for you to share with friends and family.
- Offering 5% off all products
Horner's Pens: Handcrafted Pens make the perfect gift for that hard to buy for person on your shopping list. All pens come with a special gift box and an extra refill ink cartridge.
- New products added for the event
Jillia Ceramics: Ceramic pieces that reflect nature and life around us. Each piece is handmade and hand glazed. No molds, slip casting, extruders, or slab rollers are used in production, only a pottery wheel and two hands.
- New products added for the event
Kevin Coolidge: Author of The Totally Ninja Racoons, Kevin created a series of PA Wilds based early chapter books, target audience first through fourth grade. Short chapters, humor, adventure, and one picture per chapter keep kids feeling a sense of engagement and accomplishment as they plow through these stories and ask for more!
- Offering free USA shipping
Moments in Time Studios: Portrait and fine art photographer living in the PA Wilds, Karen offers a variety of notecards featuring her photographs.
- New seller on the marketplace
Side Door Soaps & Sundry Co: Sensitive skin needs care and attention so Side Door Soaps handcrafts wholesome soap and a variety of personal care products to love your bodies with using plant oils that are sourced responsibly and processed as minimally as possible. Each ingredient is chosen for a specific purpose, no fillers here!
- Offering free USA shipping
- New products added for the event
Stephanie Distler Studios: A self-taught jewelry artist, Stephanie uses nature for inspiration. She designs and creates artisan jewelry with hand tools using silver, copper and brass in wire or sheet form.
- Offering free USA shipping
WildWood PA: John is a lifelong woodworker creating home decor made by the diverse lumber found in the Pennsylvania woodlands. It provides a wonderful source of material to work with: oaks, birch, maple, cherry, walnut, etc. These unique varieties can be challenging to work with, but their distinct characteristics allow for the creation of truly unique and stunning pieces. Each project is a journey, revealing the hidden beauty within the wood and transforming it into a timeless work of art.
- Offering free USA shipping
- New products added for the event
Yoga with Trees: Jenny Garrison's book is her act of love to Mother Earth. It opens the window of trees as Beings. She has taught classes and given talks about the trees since writing "Yoga with Trees," and is struck by the idea that for those of us who love the Earth, the Earth does indeed love us in return. Trees are evidence of that conviction.
- Offering buy 2 books, get 1 free
PA Wilds Conservation Shop: The inaugural PA Wilds Conservation Shop opened at Kinzua Bridge State Park in August 2016. After exploring the height and hikes surrounding the Kinzua Skywalk, meander through the visitor center to visit the Conservation Shop and enjoy educational displays about the location’s history. This gift-giving destination is perfect for all kinds of travelers, whether you live in the PA Wilds or are just visiting. The visitor center is open year-round with seasonal hours.
- Offering a free Outdoor Discovery Atlas with any order on the marketplace $50 or over.
ABOUT THE WILDS COOPERATIVE OF PA
The Wilds Cooperative of Pennsylvania is one of rural Pennsylvania’s largest networks of creative entrepreneurs, featuring over 300 businesses located in the Pennsylvania Wilds. The WCO is managed by the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship. Check out the WCO at WildsCoPA.org/our-members.
ABOUT THE PENNSYLVANIA WILDS
The Pennsylvania Wilds is a 13-county region that includes the counties of Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Warren, and northern Centre. For more information on the region, visit PAWilds.com.
