Operation Made Marketplace LLC

10/09/2026

🇺🇸 GET TO KNOW OPERATION MADE | #5

When you shop an Operation Made market, you’re buying more than a product. You’re making an impact. ❤️🤍💙

Behind that candle, cookie, piece of jewelry, painting, T-shirt, plant, or handmade gift is a real person with a story—often a military spouse, service member, veteran, retiree, or military family member building something of their own.

When you choose to shop with our vendors:

❤️ You support real people. Your dollars directly support military-connected makers and their families.

🏡 You strengthen our community. Shopping small keeps more money within the community and helps local entrepreneurs thrive.

⭐ You create opportunities. Every purchase gives a maker another chance to gain experience, meet customers, grow their brand, and keep going.

🤝 You become part of their story. Even if you don’t purchase, following a vendor, sharing their post, recommending them to a friend, or stopping to tell them you love their work can make a difference.

So when you see an Operation Made market, come wander the booths. Meet the people behind the products. Ask them what they make and why they started.

Because small purchases can have a BIG impact.

🇺🇸 Shop small. Support military. Strengthen community.

10/02/2026

🇺🇸 GET TO KNOW OPERATION MADE | #4

From hobby to small business—your journey can start at a market. ❤️🤍💙

Not every entrepreneur starts with an LLC, a storefront, hundreds of followers, or a perfect business plan. Sometimes it starts much smaller:

💡 I make something.
📝 I apply.
⛺ I set up my first booth.
🤝 I meet real customers.
📈 I learn what works and grow.
⭐ I decide what comes next.

That’s one of the reasons Operation Made exists.

Our markets can give military-affiliated makers a place to test an idea, practice selling, get customer feedback, build confidence, make connections, and gain real-world experience.

Maybe your first market leads to a few sales. Maybe it leads to your first repeat customer. Maybe you discover that the hobby everyone keeps telling you to sell really could become something more.

And maybe you decide you simply love making things and participating in markets. That counts, too. ❤️

You don’t have to have everything figured out before you begin.

Start where you are. Learn as you go. See where it takes you.

🇺🇸 Different stages. Same support. Stronger together.

10/01/2026

Need a canopy sign for your next vendor event? A QR code payment sign? Wood? Acrylic? Shop small business, woman owned, military, local!

09/29/2026

Tomorrow, Join Whimsical Cuts and Designs, a military spouse entrepreneur, as she starts her next chapter at the grand opening of her brick-and-mortar shop at the Fort Campbell exchange!

🌸 Grand Opening Alert! 🌸

Join us on September 30 at 10:00 AM for the Grand Opening of Whimsical Cuts & Designs at the Exchange Mall! Discover beautiful handmade décor, seasonal items, gifts, door signs, and more. ✨

📍 Exchange Mall, Bldg. 2840 Bastogne Ave., Fort Campbell
🕙 Open Monday-Saturday | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

09/28/2026

We have a few vendor spots available Friday and Saturday! Military-affiliated vendors young and old may apply! $25 per booth per day. Pick one or both days! More information is on our website; linked in the comments

👻 🎃 Vendor Search!

Military- affiliated vendors can email their application to OMM. Military affiliated include military spouses, dependents, soldiers, veterans and their spouses, retirees.

💵 Vendor fee is $25 per 10’x10’ per day. Vendors can participate one or both days. Vendor fee is not due until application is approved. Vendor set up times are 2p-4p each day; market ends and tear down begins at 9p each day.

⛺️ Vendors must bring their own canopy/table/chair etc for this event. MWR will provide cafe lights for the pathway and line the front of the tents. Bring your own lighting for inside your tent.
Bug spray and water recommended!

🗺️ location: Training Area 13, Fort Campbell

09/27/2026

Congrats to our winner - Evelyn Stamp!

📣 Free Vendor Entry Fee for a Junior Entrepreneur (military kids in grades K-12) with the Best Business Plan - community votes! Submit your 1-page business plan (see below for copy) in the comments below and community likes wins it!

09/26/2026

Go shop some of our military-owned small businesses at Shady Pines!

09/25/2026

🇺🇸 GET TO KNOW OPERATION MADE | #3

What do we mean when we say our vendors are military affiliated?

It means our marketplace is built around the people and families who make up the military community. ❤️🤍💙

Our vendors can include active-duty service members, veterans, military spouses, military family members, National Guard & Reserve members, and military retirees.

You don’t have to be the service member yourself. And as we shared in Post #2, you don’t have to already have a big, established business either.

Maybe you bake. 🧁
Maybe you crochet. 🧶
Maybe you make jewelry, grow plants, paint, sew, woodwork, design, photograph, or create something completely different.

If you’re military connected and have something to share, we want you to know that Operation Made was created with people like you in mind.

Not a vendor? You can still be part of our mission by shopping our markets, following and sharing our vendors, tagging military-connected makers, and choosing small businesses when you can.

🇺🇸 Military Connected. Community Driven.
❤️ Different paths. Same pride. Stronger together.

09/23/2026

Who does DTF on tops? Possible opportunity to fill orders!

09/23/2026

📣 Unaffiliated market opportunity announcement. Contact Annabelle Farms.