Your Small Business Guide for the St. Charles Area

Shopping at small, local businesses is a great way to spend a day for a number of reasons. Small businesses help stimulate the local economy while bringing you many quality and unique products. Check out these three spectacular spots you'll want to check out this upcoming Small Business Saturday.

Bowood Farms

As a self-declared home-grown business with roots in the community, Bowood Farms is dedicated to providing locals with the tools they need to help their garden flourish. The Bowood team sells a wide variety of healthy plants ranging from small indoor plants to trees that are sure to brighten your home and garden.

For those who are still working on turning their thumb green, you can count on Bowood Farms to help get you started. The plants they sell are just part of what makes their business so successful. They also offer garden planning services. Create a shopping list of the plants you want in your garden and they'll help you plan and organize your garden to ensure that it thrives.

Refab

Refab was founded on the ideal that good materials should not go to waste. This local company channels this ideal into the deconstruction and refabrication projects by removing reusable components of structures and then reassembling them into viable products. 

To give you a better idea of what Refab can do for you, check out their ongoing projects on their website. They're capable of taking an entire 1890 farmhouse so delicately that they're going to reuse the products to build something amazing for another lucky customer.

STL-Style

STL-Style had its humble beginnings as a basement t-shirt shop but has since grown into a bona fide force in the local scene. This business still specializes in t-shirt production but has taken the simplicity of that and ran with it.

Now, STL-Style has a dedicated and talented team that create more than just t-shirts-they strive to create pieces of wearable art as unique as the city that inspired the business in the first place. St. Louis holds a special place in the heart and history of STL-Style and their products shows it.

Happy Shopping!