This holiday shop local, support our restaurants and if you can tip generous if the service was good. The gift of local art will encourage and help the artists continue creating something they love. Most servers in our local restaurants need tips to supplement their wages.

Our local gift and vintage shops rely on holiday shopping to help them through the upcoming slow winter season. Isn't better that the place you are spending your holiday funds are your neighbors. I know sometimes the economics make a purchase at Walmart sound. But your buying power spent locally at a small business has a larger impact on locals lives.

Instead of chain restaurants with food from unknown sources most local owner operated businesses hand select the ingredients. They support local farmers and ranchers.

Do you or a friend like to knit? At the Artisan's Co-op in Bodega you can buy yarn direct from the shepherds. Wool from locally raised sheep from Bodega. Pressed flower vases with flowers grown in a local garden. One of a kind hand woven and felted scarfs. Stop by during the Artisan's Co-op Before and After Holiday sale and get 10% off.

Buy local cheeses and meet the cheese maker Karen Bianchi-Moreda at Valley Ford Cheese & Creamery n Valley Ford.

Vintage and handmade goods at Eclectic Amanda' at 1580 Eastshore Roadin Bodega Bay. Then stop by Sharon Corbett’s gift shop “Coastal Treasures at 1580 Eastshore Road Lower Parking Lot.

Mark Malicki is creating culinary delights all sourced locally at the Casino in the town of Bodega.

Make a difference in a local person life this holiday.