Bow Little Market Holiday Festival

Bow Little Market Holiday Festival grows out of Bow Little Market, the organization behind this holiday event and the broader market effort in Bow. The festival is a November market in Bow, Washington, built around a holiday-season vendor mix that includes farm goods, prepared food, and a large slate of handmade work. That combination gives this market a distinct shape: blueberry products, goat cheese, fish, produce, candles, carved wood, fused glass, wreaths, and knitwear all appear under one holiday banner. For shoppers, it reads less like a narrow gift fair and more like a seasonal extension of the Bow market’s producer-and-maker focus.

Why it matters locally

Bow Little Market describes its work as a community-centered open-air market organized in 2010 to support people in the area who grow fresh produce or make unique, fine-quality products. Its stated aim is to support the local economy by keeping area producers local and giving area consumers access to cheaper, fresher, and unique products produced in the community. That mission carries into the Holiday Festival, where the vendor roster pairs food producers such as Bow Hill Blueberries, Gothberg Farms, Samish Bay Cheese, and Well Fed Farms with craftspeople working in fiber, glass, wood, paper, and jewelry. The result is a market shaped by small-scale farmers and craftspeople earning money with locally made goods rather than a generic holiday retail mix.

What you'll find there

The Holiday Festival leans heavily into handmade goods without losing the food-and-farm backbone that defines Bow Little Market. Expect a mix where giftable craft sits alongside cheeses, produce, fish, baked goods, and ready-to-eat options.

• -Pick up Bow Hill Blueberries for blueberries and blueberry products.
• -Find Fully Fleeced offering yarn and knitted hats.
• -Browse Slow Art for bookbinding.
• -See Jessamyn Tuttle Photography’s photographs decoupaged on wood panels.
• -Shop Sew & Sew for retro aprons, baby quilts, and bags.
• -Look for LuluB Custom Knits’ knit hats and scarves, including infant and holiday designs.
• -Wear Roz Krumm’s sea glass jewelry.
• -Watch Allen Berry’s woodcarving represented in the vendor lineup.
• -Bring home Mimi’s Garden soap, face cream, and salve.
• -Buy fish from Cedar Plank Seafood.
• -Taste goat cheese from Gothberg Farms.
• -Add handmade knives or sharpening from Decatur Island Custom Knives.
• -Stock up on honey from Pat Ray.
• -Pour soy candles from Utopia Farm Candles into your holiday shopping list.
• -Pick up apples, cider, and ice cream from Betty Seguin.
• -Choose fused glass and alcohol ink art from Carol Evans Art.
• -Take home produce from Present Valley Farm.
• -Find organic produce, pork, and chicken from Well Fed Farms.
• -Order coffee drinks from Conic Roasting.
• -Grab wood-fired pizza from Arbia Pizza.
• -Save room for sweet and savory pies from Knock Out Bakery.
• -Sample artisan cheese from Samish Bay Cheese.
• -Spoon out chutneys from Dapper Swan Chutney.
• -Pack up artisan jams from Girl Meets Dirt.
• -Choose gluten free baked goods from 5Bs Bakery.

The festival programming also adds live music all day and raffle drawings all day at the Holiday Festival.

Know before you go

No dogs and no restrooms are the two details most likely to shape a visit here. The market is seasonal in November rather than year-round, so it helps to approach it as a once-a-season shopping trip built around holiday buying. The Holiday Market and Holiday Festival are held at Edison Elementary School in Edison, a different host site from the Thursday markets at Samish Bay Cheese in Bow. Payment methods are clearly posted, which makes planning simpler if you are buying across food, gifts, and prepared items in one stop. With vendors ranging from produce and seafood to knives, wreaths, soaps, and fiber goods, this is a market where many shoppers will want extra carrying room for mixed purchases.