Huddle’s Local Gift Guide: Moncton Edition
As the holidays creep ever closer and you run out of clever gift ideas for your boss/neighbour/pet, stop pulling your hair out and check out Huddle’s Local Gift Guide. Think of it as our gift to you.
Wheaton’s – Briggs Maples products
Wheaton’s, a furniture and home decor store with locations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, sells Briggs Maples products. Briggs Maples products are made from pure maple syrup produced with sap from trees located in Albert County, NB. Their products are sold wholesale to retailers across the province and from their gift shop in Riverview.
Wheaton’s carries the following Briggs Maples products:
Maple syrup ($12.95)
Granulated maple sugar ($6.95)
Maple butter ($9.95)
Maple roasted peanuts (100g, $2.95)
Maple roasted almonds or cashews (170g, $4.95)
Wrap up a collection of these for the person in your family or office with the biggest sweet tooth. We recommend including instructions on how best to hide it from any sugar-craving children to avoid even more bouncing off the walls.
Sequoia Organics – Anointment Men’s Grooming Kit, $26.65
With two locations in Moncton and one in Dieppe, Sequoia Organics offers natural and organic groceries, personal care products, cosmetics, cleaning products, supplements, essential oils and more. Sequoia Organics sells a collection of products from Sackville, NB natural skin care producer Anointment.
The men’s grooming kit includes woodland sage soap, beard oil and a hand-printed axe handkerchief. Gift this set to your favourite smelly, unruly-bearded fellow or hipster lumberjack.
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Magnetic Hill Winery – Mystique, off dry (1), 12.5% alcohol, $13.99
Magnetic Hill Winery and B&B offers wines made from estate-grown strawberries, raspberries and rhubarb as well as local New Brunswick grapes, blueberries, cranberries, apples, pears and maple. Their Mystique cranberry wine pairs well with turkey dinner, chicken or pork. Each bottle is made with almost a pound of locally grown cranberries.
Give a bottle (or three) of this to your holiday dinner host. Recommend a dosage of one large glassful for each present successfully wrapped.