The Feel Good Group is an event planning company that specializes in curating unique, outdoor shoppable markets. Feel Good events are well known for their high-quality vendor list and their experiential nature, like the family-friendly (and wacky at times) entertainment that brings a crowd and keeps them around. Book a feel good market here!
Stimulating local economy
Supporting small, local businesses
Connecting communities
feeling good and having fun
Casey Barbles - Co Founder
Casey Barbles has recently completed her Master's in Clinical and Functional Nutrition at The University of Bridgeport and is working towards becoming a Board Certified Nutritionist (CNS). She is a real food + wellness expert in Houston, TX and the founder/creator behind The Informal Grub and a handful of farmers markets and Feel Good markets in the Houston-area. These include the Heights Mercantile Farmers Market, Rice Village Farmers Market and M-K-T Sunset Market.
After receiving several lifelong health diagnoses in 2016, Casey started her personal wellness journey and “The Grub” that holds a focus on science-based nutrition and self-care techniques. The informal Grub is a place where she shares personal stories, seasonal recipes, lifestyle tips, and gives a voice to wonderful local businesses and farms to support. With a strong handle on what has ailed her, Casey is enjoying helping others heal on their own individual journey.
Travis Denson - Co Founder
Travis’s biggest accomplishment to date is winning first prize in the high school pep rally competition in 2008 when he floored the student body & faculty with his uncanny Ace Ventura impersonation and costume. Since then, Travis went on to do less exciting things like working in commercial real estate before basically throwing away his masters degree to go develop a fitness business with multiple training studios across Houston.
As a native Houstonian, his love for his hometown made it an easy decision to start The Feel Good Group with the mission to help small, local businesses thrive while providing a fun and creative way for the community to gather. Travis is a proud father to two very hairy canines as well as two real, insanely-cute human daughters (age 5 & 3). He also tricked an amazing woman into marrying him who thanklessly brings home the bacon while he scurries through life launching startups.
Casey Barbles, a Nutritionist, was asked to start a farmers market in 2019 by Radom Capital on their Heights Mercantile development after leading a cooking class at Lemon Laine which highlighted local farms with the ingredients.
After the surging success of the Heights Mercantile Farmers Market, which has been operating since September of 2019, Casey was asked to curate two more markets in the area; M-K-T Sunset Market and Rice Village Farmers Market. With the booming success of these markets, Casey began receiving many calls from developments around town to create the same template on their new development sites.
This launched The Feel Good Group, an entity that is hired by local developers and other businesses to create Feel Good events on their property that are way more than “just another market”.
Feel Good markets are more experiential than your regular farmers or artisan markets. We curate markets with high quality local vendors but we keep all visitors in mind to ensure they have a great time and want to stick around. – “come shop and stay a while” is the goal. We have unique entertainment that pop-ups like dunk booths, performers on stilts, jugglers, free face paint, a DJ that performs atop a Scooby Doo van , giant chess and many other wow-factors that keep you coming back. We want all ages to have a great time at these markets while supporting local.
September of last year, Heights Mercantile Farmers Market, had a 1-year celebration market that had a dunk tank dunking 15 local (and very loved) local chefs raising money for I’ll Have What She’s Having, a performer on silts and DJ Chaney performing on his Scooby Doo van. All of these attractions were our first time doing something like this and it was a huge hit. It was a beautiful day and someone came up to me and said, “Wow! Where did ya’ll come from? This event truly makes me feel like the pandemic isn’t even occurring”.
This first-time market visitor opened my eyes up to a whole new theme to markets – a more experiential kind...the kind that makes you feel good. I saw that we could create something that benefits the local community, the local economy and allows visitors to feel safe outside of their home and provides them with something fun to experience with friends and family... something that has been put on pause for way too long due to Covid.
I will say, I am still pinching myself that this is what I get to create for a living. This is truly a dream come true to create something that is so beneficial but fun to small, local businesses, especially at a time when many are having to shut down. We are honored we can bring to life an experience that leaves the shoppers and business owners something they too feel good about.
We currently have a recurring market in Spring Branch that launched April 10th – Spring Branch Village Market – which operates the 2nd Saturday of every month from 10-2 at 8141 Long Point a new Braun Enterprises development where Feges BBQ and Shoot the Moon will be tenants.
We have a three more Feel Good markets we are in the negotiation period with so we can’t mention those just yet.
If you are a real estate owner or a business that is interested in our services, please email us here: info@feelgoodgrp.com
