Why do I love junk?
Why do we love garden junk? On our Flea Market Gardening site, Wanda Bailey wonders WHY she buys the garden junk she buys? There have been references to this being a support group for Junk buyers,...
View Article15 essentials for Flea Market outings
Flea Market Shopping tips! Saturday morning, Saturday morning,… time to head for a Flea Market or local farm sale! How to prepare?? Print out this list so you remember all the items you’ll need to...
View ArticleTips from the workshop: Annie Grossart-Steen
Visit Annie’s Holiday workshop It’s an overcast day in Autumn as this article goes to post. Leaves blow, acorns fall, but in a magical barn-turned-workshop that overlooks the rain swept hills of...
View ArticleA favorite junk store and a VERY fun day!
My Favorite Junk Store and Why I Like It I’m itchin’ to go to the junk stores again. Boy do I miss the “ARC Store” (Assoc of Retarded Citizens) in Fullerton, CA, near where I used to live. They’d bring...
View ArticleJunk garden shopping at The Barn
Flea Market Gardening has gone ‘On the Road!’ Come with us for a trip to a true treasure-filled junk yard in California Country. On the road, junk shopping with Flea Market Gardening Highway 49 is one...
View ArticleShirley’s SHed ANtiques
Come visit an adorable garden junk shop in Washington state An avid Flea Market Gardener, Shirley Fletcher, proprietor of SHed ANtiques near Marysville, Washington, runs a small junk shop with a lot of...
View ArticleFlea Market Gardener’s shopping list
Just in time for the first Spring yard sales and Flea Markets! What’s on your mental shopping list? Your Flea market shopping list When Jeanne Sammons asked the question, “What is ONE THING on your...
View ArticleLaura’s antique ‘Little Shop’ garden
Come along with me to Laura’s Little Shop Antiques and Garden. She is a Flea Market Gardener extraordinaire and we’ll get as many ideas here as we can hold. Someday, let’s really go … Cottage Garden...
View ArticleThrift shop shopping…for the garden
Your guide to the best picks for the garden from thrift stores Flea Market Gardeners are savvy thrift shoppers, but we sometimes hear people say that they’re not good at thrift shopping—they have an...
View ArticleGarden junk hunting with The Farmer’s Daughter
The junk shops of the Black Hills of South Dakota The Flea Market Gardening gang go ‘On the Road’ and visit The Farmer’s Daughter Antique shop in Hill City, South Dakota, a shop surrounded with good...
View ArticleDebbie’s ‘Trash to Treasure’ garden
Debbie Haer lives and gardens in Tipp City, Ohio, north of Dayton. From an early age, Debbie’s Mom knew for some reason that she’d be a junk dealer! Why? She was always collecting old things and...
View ArticleWe Flea Market Gardening girls visit Boyd’s Antiques
Flea Market Gardening,..On The Road…in Custer, South Dakota Last Summer, a gang of us from Flea Market Gardening, all camped in South Dakota while having a joint vacation. While there we visited a...
View Article14 Gifts for Flea Market Gardeners
Holiday and birthday gift guide for Flea Market Gardeners! If you can’t manage to wangle a truck load of rocks or mulch (a really good idea!), here is a good page to stick under the nose of a loved...
View ArticleGarage sale shopping 101
How to shop a garage sale Actually it’s a rare sale held in someone’s garage. Normally it’s in the front yard, back yard or even on a balcony. Moving sales are great to take advantage of since it will...
View ArticleLittle House Antiques for a Spring garden
Garden Shed Junktiques from Laura… The one thing we love just as much as gardening, is antiques and Flea Market shopping! Laura Goines runs an antique and garden shop on her farm in Southwest Ohio,...
View ArticleFlea Market: Smoketree Junction Antiques, CA
A ‘Junk Shop Heaven’ Story You know how it goes. When passing through the Pear Valley, along Hwy 138 in Southern California, I hollered “Stop!” and Tractor Man hit the brakes… ’Potty stop’ I lied and...
View ArticleA garden to explore, Inside Out!
Come Flea with Us! While the girls and I, from Flea Market Gardening, visited the Black Hills this last August, we noticed a new sign rising up over a little nursery, Insideout, in Hill City next to...
View ArticleVintage Airstream on The Slow Coast
“In Slow We Trust” Davenport, CA. On a trip down the California Coast highway, on a trip we called the Chowder Chase, we stopped short at this spot,…but when on a road trip, who can resist a...
View Article15 essentials for Flea Market outings
Flea Market Shopping tips! Saturday morning, Saturday morning,… time to head for a Flea Market or local farm sale! How to prepare?? Print out this list so you remember all the items you’ll need to...
View ArticleTips from the workshop: Annie Grossart-Steen
Visit Annie’s Holiday workshop It’s an overcast day in Autumn as this article goes to post. Leaves blow, acorns fall, but in a magical barn-turned-workshop that overlooks the rain swept hills of...
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