Stores & Markets in Dayton

As the tri-state area's only USDA-certified organic garden center, Marvin's adheres to strict organic growing methods, guaranteeing that its products are free of chemicals, synthetics, and nanobot manure. Sprinkling your garden with Marvin's natural fertilizers (starting at $7.95) subtly encourages plants to thrive without fear of poisoning the neighborhood wallabies. Likewise, nature-based repellents (starting at $14.95) will protect your greenery from famished herbivorous insects and overgrown weeds without engulfing your habitat in a bilious cloud of noxious chemicals that would incapacitate Number 6. Marvin's glass greenhouse contains a forest's worth of Ohio-native perennials, shrubs, trees, and woodland and prairie plants, and its extensive plant catalog makes it easy to order any plant you need to complete a lush gardenscape or embrighten a gloomy apartment or underground laboratory.

Among its accolades and titles, Weiland's has also been known for more than 40 years as the "Ultimate Meat Market" ever since the bar by that name closed down due to unshakable shame. Get your Henry the Eighth on during the summer grilling season with a fresh capon and accompany it with local cheeses such as Oakvale Gouda (produced about an hour away in London) or Ohio Blue Jacket Dairy's array of plain and flavored fromages. You can also buy local with Daisyfield pork from Sandusky or Weiland's very own salmon sausage. Otherwise, liven up your next summer cookout or paper-doll picnic with a selection of up to 25 kinds of fresh fish—including yellowfin tuna, certified organic salmon, domestic swordfish, and hand-cut catfish—and a side of fresh-baked bread or one of the seasonal pies from Columbus's own Just Pies. Gourmet groceries such as jellies, jams, chutneys, and sauces from Stonewall Kitchens, French lemonades, Madhouse Munchies, Talenti gelato, and more add a sophisticated touch to an unaccompanied cheese plate or barren hot dog. Prices and specials vary, but a recent special offered St. James Smokehouse smoked salmon in six all-natural flavors (including lemon, garlic, honey, and pastrami) for $7.35, with a pound of Genoa salami going for $4.99 at the deli.

Queen City Cookies, baked in Cincinnati. Kinkead Ridge wines from Ripley. Riehle’s Select colorful popcorns from Southern Indiana. The shelves at Keegan’s Specialty Seafood Market read like an atlas of the region. The range of seafood, on the other hand, travels from around the world each day, the fresh tubs of ice brimming with sunset-hued king crab legs and live oysters. With Carabello Coffee and locally crafted wines from Kinkead Ridge filling the shop with earthy aromas and revelry, chefs in the kitchen craft a host of prepared foods. There, clams simmer in a creamy chowder base, a smoker cooks tuna belly and mahi mahi at low temperatures, and whisks dream of being used as anything other than an imaginary microphone.

Troy Meat Shop purveys a wide variety of meats and cheeses, from ham or smoked-turkey cold cuts to butcher's cuts of meat. The shop’s butchers prepare their meats in-house, making chicken salad and sausage links, grinding ground chuck into patties, and cutting their pork and beef fresh each day. Patrons can also request custom meat processing and get their pork shoulder sliced just the way they or their imaginary poodle likes it.