Created out of the need for accessible and affordable physical space, Founder Jimmy Brower curates an outdoor retail marketplace experience, along side an incredible team, that brings together the ideals of the modern maker with the spirit of the traveling vagabond. Rooted in the Bay Area of Northern California, HEAD WEST provides an ‘in-real-life’ platform for new, emerging + established local brands and small businesses to have physical selling space multiple times per month at various neighborhood venues.
Who is Bestowe?
Bestowe’s mission is to support small-batch artisans and local communities by providing quality connections to gifts and the stories behind them. Our humble start begins with hosting artist craft shows and events in California! They made us what we are and established our relationships with our valued artist partners. Our mission is to offer curated gift boxes for one or custom gifts for hundreds that people actually want to keep with artisan products that people value and share. Our focus is on sustainability with usable, locally sourced items and working with partners that are ethically savvy and can as much as we do about lessoning our global impact.
Partnering Artisans
Christine Munroe of Language of Knots is a fiber artist based in California’s Bay Area, though her roots are located back east on the Rhode Island farm where she grew up as the fifth of sixth siblings, all of whom were expected to do their part tending to the livestock and agriculture. That childhood instilled in Christine more than a few lessons, among them that art and fashion are an effective means of establishing individuality in a busy environment, and that resourcefulness is a virtue that should always be celebrated. These convictions lie at the heart of Christine’s love of macrame. Knots have been passed down for centuries, millennia even, because of their necessity in so many aspects of life. They are critical to human survival and success, making them an ideal medium for an artist of her background.
Earthside Candle Co. candles are all-natural soy wax blended with only natural, phthalate-free fragrance oils, with zero additives. Their main goal is to make sure their candles fit well in your home, which is why we keep our candle labels simple and clean. Their mission involves being good stewards of their planet.
Wooden Table is owned and operated by head baker, Andrés, who grew up outside of Buenos Aires and learned to cook from their grandmother. “It is from her that I inherited my love of cooking. I remember being next to her at our wooden table cooking all weekend! We aptly named our company after this shared wooden table - to honor the heritage on which our company’s recipes are founded.” Immigrant-owned, LGBTQ-certified business.
Heavenly Soap Company originated in San Francisco, CA. They love soap, nature and a green earth. That's why they provide all natural palm oil free products. The name evolved from the image of the heavenly sky interacting with the beauty of nature from earth.
