Can you believe it's been nearly 7 years since Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market was born?!  Officially, our anniversary date is October 15th, but, as many Farm Friends know, we've traditionally celebrated in September with a flea market. But as The Farm is always dropping the fresh finds and fun, we've decided to celebrate with something new: Dealer Dicker Day. 
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6/16/2022 1 Comment The Farm's Annual June Flea Market!Our annual June flea market is this weekend - Saturday, June 18th, and Sunday, June 19th - and this is the BIGGEST one yet! Mall-wide sales inside & a flea market & other fun set up outside in the parking lot! There will be amazing barbecue from Puff The Magic Potbelly, the VFW Post 762 will be there selling beer, and we will have live music! Saturday, from 11am - 3pm, local favorite Smith & Loven Six String Circus will perform - and they always bring the fun! Sunday, the Bluegrass Association of North Dakota, aka B.A.N.D, returns to the Farm with a live jam starting at 1pm! In addition to some of our Farm family vendors selling outside, we also have vendors which are new to the Farm - including local artists and makers Eckoe Moore & Beyond Love & Light Work as well as vintage from Sarah’s Closet and Gatherings Collective. The only thing missing is you - so we hope to see you there! (And please do share!) Saturday, June 18th, and Sunday, June 19th. The fun starts at 10am each day & the antique mall will be open until 6 pm.  Thanks to all of you, The Farm was voted the Best Antique Shop of the Red River Valley for the second year in a row!  As the winner of the InForum's annual Best of the Red River Valley competition, we were asked a few questions. Not all of them were printed in the publication, so we thought we would share them here.
What makes what you do special to customers? How do you define customer service? All vendors at The FARM strive to keep a clean shop while providing the unique antique, vintage, repurposed, decorator, and collectible items our customers are looking for. Customer service is all about providing attentive personal experiences for our visitors, our Farm Friends. What's the most memorable moment of the past year for your or your team? Honestly, our business is built on daily memorable moments… Helping a sister find candlesticks for her sister’s wedding, watching as older men become little boys when they spot their childhood toys, helping someone replace a broken item or find the perfect gift, assisting the woman who turns a corner and cries seeing that picture just like the one grandma had, aiding in the discovery of a vintage vinyl score, sharing in the happiness that Farm Friends feel when they bring a friend into the mall for the first time… These connections are so important to us. What's new for your business? What should people know about your business and what you do? Daily we bring in fresh finds, reorganize, redecorate, to keep the mall an inspiring, fun place to visit. We had just started our events program when the pandemic hit, and are looking forward to returning to those connections with our customers and local non-profit organizations. How do you plan on defending your title next year? To remain focused on what we do best: Providing unique items and great customer experiences in a clean shop while being an active part of the Red River Valley community. Thank you, again, for voting us number one! We hope to see you at The Farm soon! Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market, aka The FARM, mixes the past with the future this Halloween season by offering live tarot readings at the antique mall! Along with the usual antique, vintage, & historical items, there will be more unusual finds, including handmade scented “Horror Film” candles, rare Halloween blow mold figures, uranium glass, vintage x-rays, and other hard-to-find oddities. And the Holiday Hayloft will be open too. he Farm will mix the past with the future too by offering live tarot card readings from local expert Bonnie Bee. Bonnie Bee is an intuitive tarot card reader with over 40 years of experience. Her clairsentient ability was passed down to her through her mother, who was also a tarot card reader. A five-card tarot spread reading with Bonnie Bee will be just $10.  The Halloween festivities begin on October 21st, Thursday night, at 5:30 pm, with a special seasonal shopping atmosphere created with special lighting. Kristi Bixby, the owner of the antique mall, says, “When the overhead lights are off in the building, the antique mall has an almost magical ambiance from the glow of lights in the individual booths. Halloween season is the perfect time to showcase such a mood." On Saturday, October 23rd, Bonnie Bee will return to offer more tarot readings from noon until 4 pm. We hope you'll stop in for a spell!  Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market will be holding our annual Fall flea market in the parking lot again this September. As this annual event is also a celebration of our anniversary (we officially turn 6 years old in October!), all of our vendors will be having sales inside too! The FARM's Annual Fall Flea Market & Anniversary Sale Dates: Saturday, September 19th, from 10 am until 6 pm Sunday, September 20th, from noon until 6 pm Among the treasures to discover at this big Fargo-Moorhead junking event: vintage holiday blow-mold, handmade wood signs, & other Fall & Halloween decorations; vintage vinyl records, cassette tapes, & 8-track tapes; antique books, local history books, & vintage children's books; retro swag lamps, old beer light-up signs, vintage glass hurricane lamps, & mid-century pottery lighting; antique furniture, painted furniture, & furniture pieces for you to paint & transform; vintage clothing, collectible perfume bottles, & jewelry; paintings, pictures, frames, vintage paint-by-numbers, & other wall decor; collectible die-cast toys, antique tin toys, action figures, & retro 80s toys; hardware, weathered wood, vintage doors, & old windows; old china sets, vintage flatware, & vintage linens; collectible advertising items, antique and retro magazines, antique postcards, & other collectible vintage ephemera; mid-century modern glassware, collectible vintage pottery, old crocks, & collectible figurines - and so much more! We welcome you to this event & hope to see you at The FARM! Worried about social distancing for this event? The flea market will be held outside in the parking lot and the antique mall itself is large, making social distancing relatively easy. We also have hand sanitizer at the door and a washroom about halfway through the antique mall too. Masks are recommended, but not required.  As you may have heard on our Facebook Page, Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market will be reopening on May 1st! Our current hours will be: Monday thru Saturday, 10 am til 6 pm and Sunday, from noon til 6 pm. The past few weeks we have all been busy at The FARM, cleaning, revamping, restocking - but we certainly have missed you! Feel free to come in and see all the changes - and meet the newest vendors too! As we've noted before, we've always had an automatic Purell dispenser at the entry and hand washing availability - since day one. In our large shop, there's plenty of room to move around and still practice social distancing. (However, we will still reserve the right to limit the number of folks in the shop at one time, in order to keep the shop safest for everyone.) And we continue to clean and disinfect common areas for everyone's safety. We hope to see you soon at The FARM! If you feel unable to come into the shop, we understand - and are presently adding items to our online store for in-store & curb-side pickup!  2/23/2020 0 Comments Our Next Appraisal Date...2/17/2020 0 Comments Once Upon A Time… At Farm! This week, along with celebrating Spunky Old Broads and their friends, we are celebrating the delight and history of fairy tales! While National Tell A Fairy Tale Day is officially February 26th, we know that folks need to get the books first, right? Right! So all our vendors are filling their booths, cases, and the shop’s entryway with antique and vintage fairy tale books - and more! Along with vintage children's books, little kids’ chairs, nursery rhyme decor, fantasy prints, and related collectibles, we will have vintage quilts, toys, and anything else you might need for a snuggly storytime with your little prince or princess - just add grandparents or other storyteller! (Keep an eye on our social media, because you know we will be showing off some spectacular images and items!) The popularity of fairy tales is only increasing. "By their very nature, fairytales are meant to be retold and reinterpreted," says author Lincoln Michel. Maria Tatar, Professor of Folklore and Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, says that "after the great migration of oral storytelling practices from the communal hearth to the nursery, when folklore and myth have been repurposed as bedtime reading, fairy tales are beginning to captivate us anew. Multi-generational, as well as multicultural, fairy tales get us talking." This Once Upon A Time Tell A Fairy Tale book event is really special to us. On a daily basis parents and grandparents come into the shop looking for that favorite childhood book they can now share with or gift to the special children in their lives. For many, that love of a childhood book began in childhood with parents reading their favorite stories to them. Those stories remain with us as adults, we reminisce about them, share them with the children in our lives -- and they become a generational shared experience. It may even become a book collection. Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market is so happy to be a part of this whole experience! We are happier still to announce our really big Tell A Fairy Tale event: Hosting A Children’s Book Signing Event In Fargo!  Our big event will be Saturday, February 22nd, from noon - 4pm, when we have four local North Dakota children’s book authors live at the shop!
These four amazing authors will be live at the shop to meet fans and sign their books: Sawyer Anderson, author of Water Works Tory Christie, author of A Tiny Brown Monkey On The Big Blue Earth Z.E. Duval, author of the Ren and Marie series Deirdre A Prischmann, author of No Hugs! Who knows, these books might be the very titles children’s book collectors and new parents are searching for decades from now! So be sure to get your signed copies! Keep an eye on our social media for more info & updates on the authors - and, of course, be sure to stop into the shop on Saturday!
Good news, Farm friends - the monthly Trash Or Treasure appraisal fairs resume this month! Even better, because of the increased interest due to the Forum press coverage of the new events at Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market, the appraisal event on this Sunday, January 26th will have expanded hours!
Our friends at Fair Oaks Antiques, Derek & Deanna Dahlsad, will hold the appraisal fair from noon until 5 pm! The fee is $5 per item, with a limit of 3 items per person. You can pay at the door, or, if you want to ensure a spot, you may pre-pay via EventBrite:
Appraisal Fair Details:
* verbal appraisals only * appraisals are offered as a sales value, not for insurance or contractual purposes * you are responsible for the security of your items; not responsible for accidents associated with your items For further information, please see our past appraisal fair event post. 
1/13/2020 1 Comment New Year's... Old Beers!Yet another event begins at the Farm this weekend! On Saturday, January 18th, Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market begins New Year's Old Beers - a celebration of all things beer!  Obviously, there will be plenty of antique and vintage beer bottles & cans, brewery mirrors & signs, beer lights & neon signs, mugs & steins, matchbooks & other brewing advertising ephemera, bottle openers & beer trays, and other breweriana. As beer culture is closely tied to taverns, saloons, and bars (as well as casinos, the mob, dance halls, soiled doves, prohibition, & political campaigns), there will likely be an assortment of vintage advertising ashtrays & other tobacciana collectibles - and who knows that else our vendors will bring in! Not only will our vendors be stocking their booths and cases with fresh items specifically for this major beer collector event, but our entryway will be decorated with so many beer items, you might feel a bit tipsy with glee! The week-long celebration culminates on Friday, January 24th (which is Beer Can Appreciation Day, honoring the day beer was first sold in cans back in 1935) and Saturday, January 25th with book signing events! Local author Alicia Underlee Nelson, of Prairie Style File, will be signing copies of her book, North Dakota Beer: A Heady History.  Before North Dakota obtained statehood and entered the Union as a dry state, the region's commercial beer industry thrived. A lengthy era of temperance forced locals to find clever ways to get a beer, such as crossing the Montana and Minnesota borders for a pint, smuggling beer over the rails and brewing at home. After Prohibition, the state's farmers became national leaders in malting barley production, serving the biggest brewers in the world. However, local breweries struggled until 1995, when the first wave of brewpubs arrived on the scene. A craft brewing renaissance this century led to an explosion of more than a dozen craft breweries and brewpubs in less than a decade. Alicia Underlee Nelson recounts North Dakota's journey from a dry state to a booming craft beer hub. North Dakota Beer Book Signing Dates & Times at Fargo Antiques & Repurposed Market:
Whether you're an official beer collector, a local North Dakota history buff, or just a fan of beer, you won't want to miss this event! See you at the Farm - skol!  |
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