Where Girlfriends Gather: Your Guide to the Ultimate Women’s Weekend in Staunton 

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Women’s History Month is a recognition of women’s contributions to history, culture, and society that occurs each March. However, we need more than a single month to fully appreciate and celebrate female accomplishment. Staunton’s reputation as a welcoming, unique, economically successful, and forward-thinking city is greatly enhanced by its female business owners.

Here’s a list of Staunton’s female-owned and female co-owned businesses as well as what’s happening in Staunton this weekend at the Fourth Annual Valley Women’s Weekend.

Fourth Annual Valley Women’s Weekend

March 6-8 marks the Fourth Annual Valley Women’s Weekend, designed to  celebrate, amplify, and promote businesses operated and owned by women. Budding entrepreneurs will find support and expert advice leadership, networking, and growth to help them develop their new businesses.

Event Lineup

• Stay tuned for more on the Friday Event Kickoff
• Now in its fourth year, Saturday Morning Flow has become a beloved cornerstone of Valley Women’s Weekend, offering a meaningful pause before the celebration unfolds at Shenandoah LGBTQ Center (10 am)
• Shop and Support Women-Owned Businesses in downtown Staunton and beyond (Saturday 11 am – 4 pm; and always)
• Content Collab at Prism Consulting is a quick, focused opportunity to capture fresh content without spending hours planning, posing, or overthinking it. (Saturday 1 – 3 pm)
• Music Bingo at Yelping Dog is a relaxed way to connect, laugh, and celebrate the weekend together (Saturday 7 – 9 pm)
• Enjoy Sunday brunch at one of the many women-owned Staunton restaurants.
• Close out Valley Women’s Weekend at the curated, Women-Led Makers Market at Ciders from Mars (Sunday 12 – 3 pm)

Valley Women Collab

Valley Women Collab is a new organization that seeks to elevate and celebrate the Staunton-area female-led business community by providing its members with education, resource libraries, business directories, community meetups, networking opportunities, and much more.

Support Staunton’s Female-Owned and Female Co-Owned Businesses

Here’s a list of female-owned and female-co-owned businesses operating in Staunton that was put together by the Downtown Staunton Unofficial Facebook group.

Female-Owned Businesses in Staunton

• Accordia
• The Arcadia Project
• Art Hive
• Atlas & Ember

• Baja Bean
• Batten Green Venue and Lodging

• Bijou Staunton
• Billy Opal

• BLU Point Seafood
• Blue Ridge Fine Properties
• Bonfire Begonia

• Bonita’s Salon
• The Book Dragon Shop: join other readers at their weekly Tuesday Night Silent Book Club events at Yelping Dog
• Brin’s Posy
• Brown Dog Blooms
• Charlotte’s Kitchenette
• Ciders from Mars

• Crack The Code Escape Room
• The Depot Grille
• Design at Nine
• Elena – The Salon Experience

• Foxtails
• Frederick House
• Geek Boutique
• Gloria’s Pupuseria
• The Frenchmen
• The Green Room
• Helios Mediterranean
• The Junction Bar and Lounge
• Juniper Lane Vintage

• La Sunflower
• Latin Soul Staunton
• Latitudes Fair Trade
• Little Miss Pinkerbell
• Little Opal
• Little Shop of Crystals
• Made; By the People, For the People 

• Magdalena Bake

• Medieval Fantasies Company Gyfte Shoppe

• Meditation in Motion Massage
• Mill Street Body & Soul Day Spa and Salon
• Noelia Nunez Art
• Nu-Beginning Farm
• Ovid & Lane

• Ox-Eye Vineyard
• Pufferbellies Toys & Books

• The Queen Bee
• Queen City Concepts
• Queen City Historic Properties
• Queen City Music Studios: check Facebook for upcoming concerts
• Refill Renew
• Remedy Burger
• Sama-Sama Int. Cuisine
• Sanaa Design Studios

• Shenandoah Pizza & Taphouse
• The Society for Victorian Arts and Culture
• The Sparrow’s Nest

• Staunton Antiques
• Staunton Books & Tea
• Staunton Clayground
• Staunton Olive Oil Company
• Sunspots Studios

• Sweet Addie’s
• The Storefront Hotel
• The Well Balanced Paw
• Yelping Dog Wine
• Words Matter
• Zynodoa

Celebrate Staunton’s female-led businesses this month and all year long!