Artifacts & Artichokes in Grantville is a plant, oddities, and gift boutique at 7549 Mission Gorge Road in San Diego's 92120 ZIP, combining rare plant retail with rotating art exhibitions, creative workshops, and pop-up markets. Founded in 2019, the shop sources ninety percent of its merchandise from U.S.-based small-batch vendors and independent artists, stocking a mix of fair-trade goods, handcrafted home décor, dried floral arrangements, Gothic-inspired accessories, and natural history curiosities. The rare-plant vault carries collector-grade specimens alongside beginner tropicals, succulents, and cacti, and the adjacent nursery section rotates seasonal inventory from local growers. Mission Gorge Road funnels weekend foot traffic from hikers heading to and from the Mission Trails Regional Park trailheads, and the shop's Saturday and Sunday hours capture that flow alongside the morning crowd at S3 Coffee Bar further south on the corridor. Ownership identifies as Asian-owned, Latino-owned, disabled-owned, and women-owned — a multi-identity small business operating out of a storefront that sits midway between Mission San Diego de Alcala and the Mission Trails entrance. Creative workshop programming runs art classes, DIY craft sessions, and maker events that turn the retail floor into a classroom, and the venue is available for private event rental and community fundraising. A second location operates inside the SeaHive marketplace at Liberty Station, and a third outpost sits in Mission Valley, but the Grantville flagship remains the primary workshop and event space. The San Diego Reader and Roadtrippers have both profiled the shop as a destination stop for travelers and locals looking for inventory that skews toward the eclectic rather than the mass-produced. Free parking and a pets-welcome policy lower the barrier for drop-in browsing, and the same Mission Gorge corridor connects the shop to the craft-beverage scene at Good Pressure Brewing Co., where weekend pop-up vendor markets occasionally overlap with the Artifacts & Artichokes maker network. The rear lot accommodates vehicle access for vendors loading in for pop-up market weekends and private event setups.