Edge of Liberty Craft Fair - October 16, 2022

This is our last craft fair of the 2022 season and we're excited to share the bounty of our final harvest with you. Winter is coming, and this may be one of the last truly beautiful weekends to enjoy outdoors. We know it's not even Halloween yet, but our fair is just 70 days before Christmas and it really is incredible how quickly those days pass with so many holidays to celebrate and decorate. If you're looking for decor, self-pampering items, and beautiful handmade gifts from home-based artisans, our craft fair vendors will have you covered at our last craft fair of the season.

At this month's fair we will have an enormous pumpkin bounce house for the kids courtesy of Cooper’s Party Rentals LLC!

The Lunch Box food truck will be joining us as well, so you can make an entire day of it and enjoy a lovely walk through nature, do some shopping, have some lunch, watch the kids and grandkids enjoy the bounce house, and grab some fresh picked goodness from our farm stand.

We hope you will join us and be part of our community!

Read all the details about our vendors and their amazing products below.

Where are you? (click for map)

We're conveniently located on old 49 (Calumet) a mile north of Valparaiso and a mile south of the drive-in theater, right on the edge of Liberty Township.

What crafts will be available? (click for gallery)

Committed vendors for this event and information about their products are detailed below with links to their personal pages. All vendors either accept credit cards personally, or can accept payments through our "Pay With Paypal" button on our home page, but would prefer cash.

Our Vendors For October 16

The Lunch Box

• Steak, Pork, or Breakfast Burritos 
• Enchiladas
• Cuban Fly
• Cheeseburgers
• Nachos, Churros, Sugar dots
• ...and more

Cooper’s Party Rentals LLC

Tickets to use bounce house

Aircreations on a Budget

• T-shirts
• Cups
• Popsicle koozies
• Koozies
• Keychains
• Door signs

Author Paula Evans

• Books

I've self-published three (I write under the pseudonym of "Paula Evans")

Batshit Crazy Farms

• A variety of hot pepper blends for the chilihead on your gift list
• "Sanity Salt" bath salts made with herb infused coconut oil 
• Bat's Bees Lip balm made with our own beeswax and mint 
• Dried herbs & Powdered veg - parsley, powdered Swiss chard, powdered cucumber
• Limited selection of jams, jellies, fruit butters
• Men's T-Shirts (L, XL)

The Behemoth Bead

handmade jewelry with semiprecious stones, glass beads, and sterling silver accents.  I also sell handmade costume jewelry.

Bella Lena, LLC

Selectively crafted skin care products

• lotions
• body butters
• creams
• soaps

Read more...

Carolyn's Crafty Creations

If you love beads and driftwood, come and see a variety of wind chimes and more handmade crafts. No two are alike, and most are made with earth-tone colors

Crafty Cousins

• quilts
• afghans
• Halloween decor
• butt cans
• light bars
• Christmas decor

GE Daisy LLC

My specialty is etched glassware, but I also enjoy up-cycling and giving new life to old objects through etching, painting, and customization.

Custom orders for new glassware can be placed with me, or you can browse a selection of pre-etched glassware and home decor items at my booth!

Glass Stitches

• Painted & etched glass
• crotchet hats and blankets

Hawkins Full City Roast LLC

Husband and wife team serving our community with organically grown specialty coffee.

Roasted in small batches.

$1 per bag of coffee sold goes toward onetreeplanted.org.

Iridescence

At Iridescence we make customizable pearl jewelry! You get to choose your jewelry piece first, which could be a necklace pendant, earrings, a bracelet, or a ring. And then you get to decide if you want me to open a random oyster (pearls come in a large variety of colors) or if you want a natural colored pearl (white, cream, pink, lavender) for your jewelry piece. I open the oysters right in front of you and you get to watch your pearl come out. We will set your jewelry right then and there and you get to watch the whole process before taking your pearl jewelry home that day. We even have cage necklaces where you can open an oyster at home and place your pearl in your necklace all on your own! At Iridescence, we can also make custom hand made necklaces and bracelets, perfect for special gifts or wedding jewelry!

Katie Dids Natural Products

I provide insight to what the Earth has given us! Fully foraged and home grown medicinal remedies. I also can provide spice blends to improve not only what's happening to your taste buds, but how they help the body!

One Grumpy Sailor

• Handcrafted wood items
• steam punk lamps
• laser engraved items

Southlake Holistics

Hand made, natural products for pets produced locally in Chesterton, Indiana 

• Raw Milk Kefir For Dogs and Cats  
• Small Batch Bone Broth  
• Golden Paste (digestible turmeric for health)  
• Turkey Treat Dog Biscuits  
• NEW Dehydrated bone broth
• Elderberry Syrup

Wooden It Be Nice / Linda's Lumber

• Handcrafted Wooden items
• Woodburned art
• Turned pens
• keychains
• bottle stoppers
• Intarsia art

Your Small Business Listed Here

We're looking for home-based vendors selling products they make themselves who live in or near Porter county. Fill out this form to sign up! Reminder that the New Law went into effect on July 1 so we can now accept applications from those who sell non-potentially hazardous foods with a copy of food handler certification on file.

The Edge of Liberty

• Fresh cut herbs from our pollinator garden
• Fresh organic produce from our market garden
• Click here for our Fresh Pick Menu updated weekly
• The Edge of Liberty Farm Stand will be open every Sunday from May 15 through October 16 this year! Craft fairs are part of the fun every third Sunday.

About The Edge of Liberty

The Edge of Liberty is a four acre farm that we purchased because the neighborhoods surrounding it wanted to preserve the rural feeling of Liberty Township and stop it from being developed. Since it was a community effort to keep it rural, we want the community to get a chance to enjoy it...together! 

Events and services at The Edge of Liberty are centered around creating and maintaining a sense of community and preserving that hometown rural feeling that made us all fall in love with this area. In addition to the community garden that we started last season and a weekly farm stand of produce grown in our market and pollinator gardens to help defray costs of maintaining the property, we're providing this monthly outlet for members of the community to sell their handmade goods and to give you an opportunity to share good times with friends and neighbors. 

Help us celebrate life and create happiness! See you on Sunday, October 16!