Vendors

10 Jan 2009 by admin, Comments Off

FARMER & PRODUCER PROFILES

(current and former)

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Albee Farming

Albee Farming
Everett T. Albee
1628 Alna Road, Alna, ME 04535
Phone: 207-586-5024
Email: tomalbee@tidewater.net

Albee Farm is family owned and operated. Our specialty is offering only the very finest fresh fruit and vegetables. We operate a self-serve Farm Stand daily during the growing season. Our specialties include, but are not limited to, beans, greens, summer & winter squash, cucumbers, lettuce, and high bush blueberries.

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Big Barn Coffee

Dan & Claudia Sortwell
104 Churchill Street
PO Box 269 Wiscasset, ME 04578
Phone: 207-882-6374
Email: dan@bigbarncoffee.com
Website: www.bigbarncoffee.com

Our goal is to provide coffee made from coffee beans grown in a sustainable way. We buy Fair Trade organic beans where possible and are a member of 1% For the Planet—1% of our gross sales goes to the Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association. Our coffee is freshly roasted in our barn and presented in recyclable metal coffee cans. One variety of coffee will be offered per market, both freshly brewed and as roasted beans.

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Borealis Breads

P. O. Box 1800, Wells, Maine 04090
Phone: 207-641-8800
Bakery Locations:
1165 Post Road, Wells, ME
1860 Atlantic Highway, Waldoboro, ME
Bistro & Bakery:
182 Ocean Avenue, Portland, ME
E-mail: stevec@borealisbreads.com
Website: www.borealisbreads.com

Borealis Breads is the only commercially available breads made with local grains. Jim Amaral, President and Owner, is a leader in the development of grain agriculture in Maine. For over ten years, Jim has worked hand in hand with local farmers to create a sustainable economy in healthy local grains – work that continues to this day. Borealis makes a wide variety of artisan bread with only the finest of ingredients – 40-year-old natural sourdough starters, wheat flour, water and sea salt. All our breads are shaped by hand, allowed to slowly proof, and finally baked to perfection in our stone hearth ovens giving them a rich, distinct flavor only worthy of the name ‘Borealis’ – breads that contain no preservatives or artificial ingredients.

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Bridge Farm

Bob Howe, Kathy Coleman
593 Gardiner Rd(Rt. 27), Dresden, Me 207
phone: 737-8083
website: www.bridgefarm.me

Bridge Farm dates back to 1763 on the banks of the Eastern River. Today it is an MOFGA certified organic, diversified farm with flocks of laying hens, whole chicken broilers, turkeys, sheep and lambs, heritage pigs and donkeys to help control predators. All the animals are fed organic feed, graze on grasses.We use no hormones, artificial additives or preservatives but a rotational grazing system to build healthy soils and happy animals. Poultry tractors are moved frequently. Our crops are organic and a heritage garden, developed by Master Gardeners, is available for garden tours with an appointment. An earthen cob oven is on the farm. Bread, bagels and baked goods are made from organic ingredients. A farm store,opened daily, is located on the farm selling farm produce and farm/locally made items. Fiber from our sheep is available at the market, farm stores, Fiber Frolic and the Common Ground Fair. We participate in Maine’s Open Farm Day which is always the last Sunday in July. Come visit the farm, see us at the Gardiner Farm Market or stop in.

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Chatterbox Bakery

Joanne Nichols and Brenda Pinkham
22 Hummingbird Lane, Augusta, Maine 04330-3723
Joanne 207-752-2335 and 603-431-7010
Brenda 207-649-3278
joanne@arborinn.com or bren57@adelphia.net
www.arborinnbakery.com, www.chatterboxbakery.com

Chatterbox Bakery sells all natural homemade pies, cakes, scones and assorted pastries and baked goods. The owner Joanne Nichols, is a National and Regional award winner for her original recipes.

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County Fair Farm

Andy and Sue Williamson
423 Augusta Road, Jefferson, ME 04348
Phone: 207-549-3536
Email: countyfair@gwi.net

From peas to pumpkins and almost everything in between! Sweet corn is our specialty…always picked fresh and delicious. We have a wide variety of vegetables as well as Apples and farm-raised meats. We look forward to seeing you at the Gardiner Farmers’ Market. Also, visit our farm stand in Jefferson for great family fun!

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Dancing Cricket Farm

Nicholas Costello, Samantha Manetti, Kevin Santillo, David Santillo, Amy Simonds
Box 222
Bowdoinham, ME 04008
207-623-7894
dancingcricket@yahoo.com
www.dancingcricket.org

Dancing Cricket Farm, Bowdoinham: growing organic vegetables, herbs and flowers as part of an integrated land management system, a central project at the Center for Ecological and Cultural Living Arts.

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Dragonfly Cove Farm/Thyme for Goat

Joe Murray & Marge Kilkelly
5 McCobb Road, Dresden, Maine 04342
Phone: 207-737-8737
Website: www.dragonflycovefarm.com

Dragonfly Cove Farm is a small, diverse homestead farm located at the confluence of the Eastern and Kennebec rivers in mid-coast Maine. Joe Murray and Marge Kilkelly raise and sell Boer cross meat goats, goat meat, make maple syrup, and spend the summer canning and preserving the bountiful wealth of our kitchen gardens, vineyard and fruit trees. Goat meat is available at our farm year round. Goat milk soap and fiber products from Go-tees Farm fill out a vibrant market basket, right here in Dresden Farmlands! Do visit! Also available: goat meat products through Thyme for Goat, a partnership of farms.

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Emery Farm

Trent Emery
137 Besse Road, Wayne, ME  04284
Phone:  207-615-4488
Email:  emeryfarm@gmail.com
Website:  emeryfarm.org

We offer mixed vegetables, potatoes and herbs and are committed to providing food of the freshest quality that is wholesome and safe to eat.  We care about the health and wellbeing of our family, friends and the community as well as our environment.  We provide food and nutrition that supports a healthier lifestyle and a more sustainable way to live.

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The Fudge Lady

Rosemary Machowski
3 Marie Circle, Sabattus, ME 04280
Phone: 207-786-0272
Email: fudgelady@roadrunner.com

Offering 21 different kinds of fresh homemade fudge. My recipes are unique in that all the berries are picked right here in Maine gardens. Taste your favorite Peanut Butter or think outside the box with my Penuche Surprise, Cotton Candy, Banana, Pumpkin, Green Mint, and so many more. Always fresh and available.

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Geroux’s Café Mixes

Sharon Geroux
35 Spring Street, Gardiner, ME 04345
Phone: 207-582-7708
Email: geroux6@msn.com
Website: www.gerouxsgifts.com

We support our local economy by buying our jars from a local retailer and purchasing our ingredients from local farms and stores. We do not support big box stores. We choose to use real canning jars to help save our environment as they can be recycled, keeping them out of landfills. We produce jams, relish, pickles, baking mixes, dips and offer fresh baked cookies and bread.

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Laughing Stock Farm

Lawrence Morse
0162 Prescott Road, Manchester, ME 04351
Phone: 207-626-0541
Email: L666555@gwi.net
Website: www.laughingstockfarm.org

Enjoy our early start with rhubarb and Siberian iris. We’ll be bringing peonies, delphiniums, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, sour cherries and, with luck, peaches. We’ll also have raspberry and blueberry bushes and our own honey and maple syrup. In the fall, we will have fresh cider from the old fashioned apples like Golden Russets and Cox Orange Pippins. If you prefer to pick-your-own blueberries and raspberries, check our website for details.

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Long Meadow Farm

Denis Thoet and Michele Roy
29 Long Meadow Drive, W. Gardiner, ME 04345
Phone: 207-582-4817
Email: longmeadowfarm@roadrunner.com
Website: www.longmeadowfarmmaine.com

We offer mixed vegetables throughout the season, all organically certified: lettuce mix, spinach, Swiss chard, beet greens, seedlings, tomatoes, basil, cilantro, chives, pesto, bread, pickled beets, zucchini relish, calendula and plantain salve, fresh salsa, dilly beans, relishes, medicinal herbs, cut flowers, pickles, jams, free range eggs, and shearling pelts.

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Oaklands Farm

Logan Johnston & Phyllis Gardiner
Gardiner, ME 04345
Phone: 207 582 2136
Email: farm@oaklands-farm.com

Home grown beef. Raised eating only 100% certified organic pasture grasses, dry hay, baleage and grain, all of which is grown on the farm.

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Popp Farm

David Popp
151 Popp Road, Dresden, ME 04342
Phone: 207-737-4351

We are pleased to offer mixed vegetables, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, strawberries, raspberries, cut flowers and more.

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Port Clyde Fresh Catch

PO BOX 223, Port Clyde, ME 04855
Phone: 207-372-8065
Email: info@midcoastfishermen.org
Website: www.portclydefreshcatch.com

Our seafood is harvested by the Midcoast Fisherman’s Cooperative of Port Clyde, Maine. They use environmentally sustainable seafood harvesting methods to preserve the fishery and their historic fishing community. Prices: $3-$18/lb.

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R & L Berry Farm

Richard and Leane Reed
22 Berry Road, Readfield, ME  04355
Phone:  207-685-4709
Email:  rlberry@prexar.com
Website:  rlberryfarm.com

We are a 2.5-acre pick-your-own raspberry farm.  In addition, we offer high bush blueberries, mixed vegetables, honey, rhubarb, baked goods, maple syrup products, honey butters, raspberry vinaigrettes, raspberry shrub (concentrated syrup) and cut flowers.  We also have handmade soaps, hand creams and homemade jewelry.

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Marsha Dawson
Email: marsha_dawson@yahoo.com

Marsha Dawson creates bread and humous. It’s a substantial bread made from organic Maine-grown wheat (when obtainable) and organic sesame, flax and sunflower seeds. The label advises that the bread be toasted. The humous is traditional only in its ingredients. There’s a lot of garlic and cilantro in the mix. It doesn’t get “lost” in a wrap with other things like cheese and lettuce, etc.

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Roseberry Farm

Virginia R. Roseberry
670 Beetle Road, Richmond, ME  04357
Phone:  207-737-4989

We are a certified organic farm selling dairy, vegetables, herbs, plants, eggs, seedlings and cut flowers.  We have a farm stand and our Farmhouse Kitchen offers baked goods, chocolates, jams, pickles, and cold homemade drinks.  In addition we sell photo greeting cards.

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Small Wonder Organics

Pete Engler and Sarah Trask
431A Brown’s Point Rd
Bowdoinham, ME 04008
Pete: 737-9142 Sarah: 837-7425
smallwonderorganics@gmail.com
smallwonderorganics.blogspot.com

Small Wonder is a small, diversified farm growing certified organic vegetables in Bowdoinham. We help make healthful, sustainably-produced and delicious food accessible within our community. CSA shares available winter 2010/2011.

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Snafu Acres Dairy Farm

R. Ivan Smith
259 Tillson Road, Monmouth, ME 04259
Phone: 207-933-2707
Email: snafuacres@myfairpoint.net
Website: www.monmouthgrows.com

All our animals are fed grains free of antibiotics, animal by-products and hormones. We offer maple products, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef and pork.

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Sparrow Farm

Karen and Ted Sparrow
253 Whitefield Road, Pittston, ME 04345
Phone: 207-512-2234
Email: sparrowfrm@gmail.com

We are a small family farm in Pittston, Maine, growing organic vegetables, cranberries and eggs. We strive to produce the best quality produce for your family and friends.

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Stonecipher Farm

Ian and Tabitha Jerolmack
1190 River Road
Bowdoinham, ME 04008
Phone:  207-737-4124
Email:  stonecipherfarm@gmail.com

Stonecipher Farm offers certified organic vegetables and flowers from our recently acquired 65 acre farm in Bowdoinham.  Look forward to all your salad favorites from a range of fresh cut loose leaf greens to a wide array of cherry and slicing tomatoes, plus onions, squashes and more.

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Stone Fox Farm Creamery

Kathy & Bruce Chamberlain
77 Bartlett Hill Rd. Monroe, ME 04951
Email: stonefoxfarm@mainelywired.net and Facebook under Mobilecone.

We make homemade ice cream in our small plant in Monroe. We use milk,cream and sugar (no high fructose corn syrup). Our flavorings and extracts are all natural. We use Maine fruit and maple syrup whenever possible.

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Webb Family Farm

277 Webb Road, Pittston, ME 04345
Phone: 207-582-7160

Webb Family Farm proudly offers our MOFGA Certified organic whole grains—wheat, spelt, oats, and corn—in the whole berry form, as fresh ground flour, and rolled cereal. Our pancake mix, cornbread mix, granola and baked goods are local and fresh, grown in Pittston, and processed in our on-farm grain mill.

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Wholesome Holmstead

the Trenholm family,
Stanley Rd.
Winthrop Me 04364
Phone: 207 395 4784
Email: wholesomeholmstead@gmail.com

We are a small diversified family farm. We offer our own West Wind Angus beef, milk fed pork and veal, Mar Mik Golden Guernsey dairy, also poultry, produce and flowers.

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Wickedlicious

Terri Lynn Pulley
73 Central Street, Gardiner, ME 04345
Phone: (207) 624-2506
Website: www.tlswickedlicious.com

Wickedlicious is an organic gourmet food emporium located on the Un-Acred Farm in Gardiner, ME. We specialize in scrumptious goodies made from organic ingredients acquired from our local farmers.

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