Our Country Store

Time is a precious, precious commodity. There's only so much in a day and it seems like something suffers when you add just one more thing. The nice thing about being in business as a partnership and not a sole proprietor is that you can split up the ultimate responsibilities of business ownership. Well . . . we at the ODB have started a few new endeavours. Catharine will be taking on the wholesale end of the ODB while my personal new area is "Our Country Store."

With its beginnings as our wine shop, "Our Country Store" will house a variety of local and regional products. Our goal is to serve tourists with a gift shop setting while keeping an inventory of products locals will want as well. "Our Country Store" will include an ever increasing inventory of such edible products as nuts, honey,cheeses, jams, our salad dressings, wines, microbrews, chocolates, crackers, and a variety of locally bottled products from Winter Green Farms including spagehtti sauce. We'll also be looking at crafty items as well - metal and woodworking and such. We presently have a line of body products from Triple Tree Farms in Lorane. The possibilities go on and on. I feel like we have only touched the tip of the iceberg as far as vendors, distributors, and craftsmen go.

We also carry with us the heritage of the Veneta Downtown Farmer's Market. For those farmers who sold products in the lot next to us all summer, we are able to provide a year round option for them - especially those products that we can shelf for a while. In collaboration with another market venue and the Farmer's Market, we'll be hosting our own Holiday Bazaar on the weekend of November 21st and 22nd. Its such a huge tradition in Fern Ridge area that there about about 29 other locations happening all on this one weekend! We're expecting a tremendous turnout considering the high level of breakfast and lunch business without having a bazaar - just pass though traffic. Although, we expect to make the real money off of the increased restaurant business, we'll be selling our own host of ODB products - baked goods, gift baskets, and such. Exciting stuff and a great kick off to our own Country Store!