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Happy Solstice, local food lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.
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New and Returning Products
Bread & Croutons
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Bread
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Vendor: Ferme Louis
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Cinnamon Brown Sugar Brioche Mini Loaf

Focaccia Croutons

Focaccia Sandwich Loaf

(pictured) Roasted Garlic & Rosemary Foccacia
Holiday Spiced Pecans
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Trail Mix
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Vendor: Ferme Louis
Eggs
Menu Group: Food
Section: Eggs
Category: Chicken
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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(pictured) One dozen eggs from our happy and healthy hens.
Our lucky ladies eat non-gmo "natural" layer pellets, organic scratch grains and tons of garden scraps from our gardens. They are an important part of our farm ecosystem!


Vendor; Whitehill Farm

Lots of nice large eggs, all different shades of brown ...and the occasional green one!. Our older layers are still giving us nice eggs and the new flock is now laying more actual large and nice large eggs, more large than mediums and smalls! They are all enjoying goodies: veggie scraps - coming from the House AND EXTRA greens and trimmings from cooking.
Sprout Kraut
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fermented Foods
Category: Sauerkraut
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Vendor: Ferme Louis
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12 oz mason jar - Our spin on sauerkraut made with Brussel sprouts
Brussels Sprouts
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Brussels Sprouts
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Always better after a frost, and we've been frosted! Enjoy these tender morsels boiled, roasted, or as you please! They are of the cabbage family and will keep well in your refrigerator.
Grown using IPM, Integrated Pest Management, starting with row cover, and using minimal pesticides when swede midge detected in the field. There is NO organic agent to control this pest. It affects all brassicas.
Cabbage
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cabbage
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Conventionally grown using IPM - Integrated Pest Management for Swede Midge which has affected all our brassica - minimal pesticide use needed for cabbage.

Green Cabbage: These dense green cabbage are excellent keepers, and are excellent for slaw, kraut, in stir fries or soups, or boiled for an old fashioned New England dinner.
-Large or Medium available

Red Cabbage- Medium to large: These large deep purple-red heads are a work of art when sliced open, and equally appealing in slaw, soups, stir-fries, salads.
5-5.5lbs each
Mixed color carrots
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Carrots
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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ORGANIC Crisp and crunchy Mixed color carrots! Perfect for snacking, as a dinner side, roasting, Certified Organic. Beautiful crisp carrots. Package will have at least 2 pounds. Orange, white, golden yellow, and RED!!!
Garlic
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Garlic
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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8 ounces of garlic
Sweet White Chard
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens Chard
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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A nice 1/2 lb bunch of white stemmed Swiss Chard. Wonderfully sweet boiled and served with butter and salt to taste.
Leeks
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Leek
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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No spray. Grown naturally. Large or Medium
Onions
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Onions
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Naturally Grown; No pesticides, No synthetic fertilizers.

A Mix of Med-Large Red and Yellow Onions

Med-Lg Yellow Winter keeper onions

Small to medium sized yellow onions: Not a winter keeper but nice to use now.
A mix of potatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Potatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Banana Fingerling, Keuka Gold, Yukon Gold, and German Butterball. Medium sized, but some smaller and some larger. Natually Grown
Squash
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Squash - Winter
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm

Butternut - small: 1.5 lbs average wt., Grown Naturally


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Butternut - Large

Carnival Acorn Squash

Mashed Potato Acorn Squash: From the Kitchen Garden Seeds website, where we sourced the seeds from: "What a sneaky little Squash! It has pure white skin and off-white flesh that, when roasted and fluffed with a little butter, looks just like mashed Potatoes. While it might not taste just like it’s namesake, it is delicious, with fewer carbohydrates. "
Sweet Potatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Sweet Potatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Traditional orange fleshed sweet potato. This is grown and sold by Johnny's in place of the classic Beauregard sweet potato as it produces clusters of more uniform sized tubers . Grown naturally from organic shoots.
Firestarters
Menu Group: Home and Garden
Section: Tools
Category: General
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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Beeswax Fire Starters are a great smelling way to get a wood burning fireplace or fire pit.
These are made from all-natural local Beeswax!

Bay, Lavendar, Fir and Sage

Star Anise, Lavendar, Fir and Rosemary
Trandescantia zebrina 'Burgundy'
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: House Plants
Category: Other
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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Long trailing stems with dark purple and olive leaves in a pretty green pot with swirls of various colors.

Trandescantia zebrina can be kept in full sun outside during the summer months, and prefers south or west exposure when kept indoors. This is a semi-succulent plant, so should be watered when the soil is almost dry.