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00:00Hey folks, so Jacob here with Palette Torum and today we are up at West Point's Farmers

00:06and Artisans Market and we are joined by Amber Stanley, the proprietor of this lovely location.

00:12And so some of you have probably seen some of our posts about having our products and stuff

00:15up here, so we're going to do an interview with Amber today to kind of find a little

00:18more just the history and the backstory of the shop.

00:21So for our first question, we're going to ask, how long has the store been in operation?

00:24I opened March 4th of 2024 and relocated to our new current location on February 8th of

00:36this year.

00:37And how big is the new store location since I know it's grown in size since the first

00:42location?

00:43Tripled our space, but we relocated.

00:50All right, let's move to the new location for the shop.

00:52How many vendors are you all up to, right?

00:55I currently have 31 vendors and then two youth vendors that are children of current vendors.

01:03Okay.

01:03And with the move to the new location, are you all looking for more vendors right now?

01:07If you are, what kind of vendors are you all looking for?

01:09I do have plenty of room for new vendors.

01:12Definitely seasonal produce vendors and vendors that may have a commercial kitchen that can do

01:18some prepared meals.

01:19All right, so there you go.

01:20If you're a seasonal produce grower here in the Westlands area, or if you're somebody that

01:25makes a prepared meal, stop by and talk to Amber about feeding on as a new vendor here

01:29at the shop.

01:31All right, so with the move to the new location, what kind of items do you all have available

01:35in the store?

01:35We carry an assortment of meats, baked goods, drink mixes, teas and kombucha, which we also

01:44have on tap for the kombucha, eggs, plants, health and beauty products, apparel, produce,

01:50home decor, crafts.

01:53All right, so what was the reason behind the move from the old store to here in this new location?

01:58We had the opportunity to significantly expand our space, and we were rapidly upgrowing our

02:04previous location, so that was a huge factor, but also increasing our visibility and making

02:09our shopping center to find the best stores.

02:11Okay, and so where can people find the new store location?

02:14We are located at 218 West Lane Street in the West Lane Plaza.

02:18Okay, and if somebody wanted to come and shop the store, what are your hours of operation?

02:22They need to stop by, if they're going to come in and browse, we'll have a sale.

02:26We're open from Monday through Friday from 10 to 5, and Saturday from 10 to 2.

02:31So Amber, what was the idea behind the shop, and what makes this place so unique?

02:36I was looking for a spot that I could sell my plants year-round, but wanted to also support

02:43kind of the local vendors that I'd gotten to know through the farmer's market and being

02:47outdoors, and provide a space where we could be inside and function here.

02:52around without them having the effects of the weather and some of the other issues that

02:57have come up at outdoor markets.

02:59Okay, and the next question is, what would you say to people that you're not a real farmer's

03:03market, since you're indoors, have a storefront?

03:06There is a huge movement going on right now for farmer's markets that have typically been

03:13outdoors, that are moving to indoor retail locations.

03:17They're actually called farmstops.

03:20Turns out, I was one of the first farmstops in Missouri with this exact setup as a vendor-based,

03:29fully functional retail store.

03:31Okay.

03:32Well, thank you.

03:33Thank you for having us today.

03:34And for all of you that are watching along at home, if you can't catch us at one of our

03:39normal farmer's markets outdoors, then you can always come and enjoy the local farm stop

03:44here in West Plains.

03:45And come shop the store.

03:47We'll have our products here.

03:48As you heard, there's a wide variety of other vendors that have all kinds of items here.

03:54Oh, I'm always finding something new when I'm walking through the store.

03:57So, thank you for, you know, conducting this interview today, and hopefully we'll have

04:02a few more people coming in to come and see you at a great place here.

04:05Thank you so much.

04:35So, what kind of items do the vendors...

04:40Shit, let's start over.

04:43Yeah.

04:44You can hold the chicken in this one.

04:46We'll know that that's the cue to cut the video out.

04:49Yeah, go ahead.

04:50Is it filming?

04:51Mm-hmm.

04:51All right.

04:55So, what kind of products do you have in the store right now?

04:58We have vendors that grow and produce.

05:03So, what was the impetus behind the move from the old location?

05:08Da, da, da, da, da, da.

05:09On the front of the same building that we were in, it just moved to 218 West Main Plaza.

05:21Nope.

05:22So, what was the idea behind starting this shop?

05:26Like, what kind of makes this...

05:28Birds and things, things and words...

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