Shop Small Saturday: 20 Awesome North Carolina Businesses

Inspired by delicious, authentic and healthy ingredients, the owners of Midtown Olive Oil decided to bring a unique tasting experience of balsamic vinegars and the freshest, highest quality olive oils to the Triangle area. 

Inspire your taste buds with over 50 varieties of the highest quality extra virgin olive oils and specialty oils imported fresh from around the world and balsamic vinegars from Modena, Italy. Midtown Olive Oil also carries olive oil-based bath & body products, fine kitchen linens, gourmet accessories and large variety of specialty food products, some unique to the area, and others sourced from right here in North Carolina.

Bravo Steaks proudly ships nationwide dry aged beef and Berkshire pork raised on their farm! Their beef is dry aged for 21 days, giving it fantastic tenderness and flavor that can be hard to find. Their cattle are finished on pasture with a barley based diet. Barley finished, dry aged beef has an incredible, restaurant quality flavor.

This is not your ordinary relish. Cottage Lane Kitchen creates a fiery, distinctive Southern Pepper Relish! Made from fresh chile peppers, with not a cucumber in sight, this relish has a modern, bold SPICY flavor with a firecracker personality to boot! They have two flavors - Get Me A Switch is based on an heirloom family recipe. Its name embraces their southern roots and identifies its lingering zippy sweet/heat character while Cape Fear is a modern recipe and its name identifies its lingering habanero fruity/fiery character.

The relishes are sodium free and use all fresh chile peppers that have been chopped and slow cooked in apple cider vinegar. Both provide ‘just enough heat to make you happy’ and make your dishes sing with delight!

And 2020 is the year of Hissy Fit Hot Sauce! Launched during the pandemic, Hissy Fit is Cottage Lane Kitchen's answer to the ubiquitous southern vinegar based hot sauce. They've added their own special blend of spices and tasty twist for the modern palate. With the perfect amount of tangy smoky heat, it's the gourmet artisanal southern sauce updated for the 21st century.

Cottage Lane Kitchen is proud of the lineage of our recipes; their history in Chapel Hill, NC where their home has been for generations; the quality of the ingredients used in their products and the bold flavors they continue to preserve.

The Seagrove area is one of the largest communities of potters with the longest continual history of pottery making in the United States. Today visitors can explore the rural landscape by back roads and visit the potters in their workshops and studios, to witness the Seagrove potters continuing the tradition of making pots. The area is home to more than 100 potters who offer a full spectrum of pottery and ceramic art. With a diversity of talents, Seagrove has something to offer both the serious collector and the casual buyer. The Seagrove area offers the visitor an opportunity to learn about North Carolina's ongoing pottery culture.

Raleigh nonprofit Designed For Joy hires trafficking survivors and women coming from high risk situations and provides them with living wage work creating a line of bags, jewelry, accessories, and home decor.

Chapel Hill Toffee begins with a layer of traditional English toffee spread thin and cut by hand into bite sized squares. Each piece is coated on both sides with a top-secret blend of dark chocolates. The smooth layers are finished off with the sprinkling of pecans that gives Chapel Hill Toffee its iconic look and distinctive southern twist!

Hand stamped and personalized jewelry, ornaments, flatware, fishing lures, golf ball markers, guitar picks, and other accessories.

Human-Grade dog and cat treats created from the same meat that you get from the grocery store. No Additives or Preservatives.

If you want to know what you're feeding your pets and you're looking for delicious all natural single ingredient dog and cat treats, you've found the right place. These treats never contain additives, preservatives or seasonings. Just 100% meat.

Yes, Chef Beauty is the brainchild of Chef Hadassah Patterson. They make culinary-inspired, pure aromatic sea and rock salt scrubs with only the purest salts available. Blends include layers of pure essential oils for wellness* activity as an added plus. They are detoxifying with world-renown certified Kosher Dead Sea Minerals. So, they easily double as a bath soak to soothe away aches and pains. No artificial or chemical ingredients. Vegan. Top 14-free.

BumbleFly N ButterBees designs and creates beautiful hand-painted wooden Montessori-style toys and a variety of eco friendly items like UNpaper napkins, UNpaper towels, bowl cozies, and embroidered flour sack towels, tote bags, and hand towels.

Beautifully packaged gift boxes featuring North Carolina foods and kitchen doodads. From "The Whole Kit n'Caboodle!" to "Just Add The..." these gift boxes will delight any foodie on your list.

Little Beautiful Mess creates rustic & farmhouse style wood signs along with hand poured soy candles will add inspiration and happiness to any home.

Adventures in Bloom Local Goods & Workshops is a Handmade Boutique in the heart of Cary, North Carolina. This "space for the creative adventurer” is warm and inviting with beautiful items from over 30 local North Carolina makers adorning the shelves.

Crafts Made by Mom include handmade items such as, door hangers, wreaths, wooden signs, pillows, personalized items, and more! Based in North Carolina, shopping local and supporting local is something they believe in!

Hand Embroidered Jewelry and Embroidery Hoop Art. Here you'll find a fresh take on embroidery, including hand embroidered bridal bouquet portraits.

The Frugal Fox is on the hunt for happies for you and your home at a reasonable price-hostess gifts, candles, home decor, & furniture.

Spivey Studios is a family owned business in North Carolina offering custom gifts and stainless steel drinkware. Laser etched and powder coating service.

Founded in 2018 by Morgan Siegel, North Carolina business Jeddah’s Tea was birthed from both a passion for tea and a deep love of community. Sourcing small-scale organic, vegan-friendly and fair-trade teas, herbs, and spices, Jeddah’s Tea prepares authentic, traditional teas, blends and concentrates from geographies and cultures underrepresented in the American tea-sphere. 

Fun Fashion Forward Accessories hand-crafted in North Carolina. They hand make everything from hats, to mugs, earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, and fashion masks.

Copper Bloom's dream is to help you blossom into the best version of you.  While clothing itself won't change the world, the women wearing it will!  They want to be the ones dressing you while you bloom as the main character in your life. Copper Bloom wants to help give you the confidence you need to realize just how amazing you are and all that you are capable of!