We won!
For the BEST BOUTIQUE category, the Bird & Bear won the silver medal in the 2025 Quest for the Best Awards!
Thank you to all who voted for us, and for this moment to celebrate this milestone for the Bird & Bear “shop that’s not a shop, but a collective with a shop”. The journey into retail has been one of the hardest parts of the Bird & Bear’s last few years.
As many of you know, in 2020, Covid pushed us into product way way sooner than we wanted. When we couldn’t gather anymore, we pivoted to create our own custom apparel products and began partnering with small businesses to promote their products too. We stepped out of the backyard barn and into a downtown brick & mortar in 2021 during a time when many brick & mortars were closing.
This founder whose vision was rooted in purpose & people, with no experience whatsoever in product, navigated a pandemic, and was stretched in every way (physically, emotionally, financially & spiritually) by the retail side of the the Bird & Bear.
Our commitment to making sure you knew that this brand and this downtown brick & mortar space wasn’t just a shop, but a collective with a mission to equip & inspire more intersection & impact has been really really wild. But I am proud to say, we are doing it, together with you, and the shop has become one of the most beautiful, everyday, open door ways in which are creating impact in this local wilderness. You get to walk thru our open doors and right away see, feel & even smell the essence of what the Bird & Bear is, along with all the other ways you get to be a part of it too.
My gratitude for your patience + ongoing curiosity, commitment and support while we’ve together braved the journey of becoming the Bird & Bear Collective is what I am dedicating this award too. I am also dedicating this to the countless small businesses who we get to come alongside as you share your products & services here ~ the Bird & Bear wouldn’t be what is has become without you!
Together we are The Bird & Bear Collective, where we nest & rest, explore & soar and now have the best boutique too!