Favorite Deer Isle/BH Peninsula Farm Stands
Support your local makers and growers
Though my two years living on Deer Isle is hardly enough to claim full knowledge of every single local farmstand (or smallscale foodmaker), I’ve settled on a list of hard favorites for folks that like to buy directly from their growers/makers. I love to cook with inspiring, earth-friendly ingredients, and half the fun is to find them. I am excluding grocery/general stores in this post. Our area is full of amazing growers and makers, so if I’ve missed any favorites, please let me know in the comments and I’ll happily add on!
On Deer Isle:
73 Reach Rd, Deer Isle, ME 04627 tel: 207-348-2601 Mid June to Mid October, Tuesday-Saturday 10am - 5pm Certified Organic
My favorite farm stand on Deer Isle: Eric Ziner and Missy (Melissa) Greene’s farm store boasts an array of farm-grown organic produce, their award winning goat milk cheeses - both fresh and aged, true greek style yogurt, goat milk gelato, cajeta, (goat milk caramel) their organic skin creams, goat milk soaps, cookies, breads, blueberry balsamic vinegar and more. Their locally sourced products include: Rainbow Farm Pasture Raised Chicken, Pork, & Beef, Organic Maple Syrup, Tinder Hearth Breads, Locally harvested seaweeds, etc.
Starbird Farmstand
The farmstand wasn’t open the past two seasons, so I haven’t been yet, but this one looks very promising and is re-opening! I think the address is 88 Burnt Cove Rd, Stonington
Small scale, organic mushrooms, grown on Deer Isle! Find them at the Stonington Farmers Market
43 School St., Stonington ME every Friday 10 AM -12 PM from Memorial Day to September
A wonderful mix of farmers, bakers, potters and more, weekly. (And next door is our popup shop!)
43 School St, Stonington ME every Friday 10 AM -12 PM from Memorial Day to September
OK, admittedly, we aren’t a farmstand, but my shop pops open just next door to the weekly Stonington Farmers Market (it takes place in the parking lot), in the Connectivity Hub/old Elementary School, with shelf stable, mostly certified organic artisan made foods which are the perfect complement to your farmers market and farm stand finds! (Everything from Maine Made Pasta, to snacks and gifts). We include products from 20 different Maine makers, as well as my favorites from further afield.
Sunset Garlic Farm
261 Sunset Rd, Deer Isle
Seedlings, gourmet garlic and other produce.
7 Main Street / Deer Isle, ME / 04627 Monday - Friday / 7:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday / 8:00 am - 2:00 pm Sunday / CLOSED
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70 Main Street / Stonington, ME / 04627 Monday - Saturday / 6:30 am - 5:00 pm Sunday / 8:00 am - 2:00 pm Memorial Day thru Indigenous People's Day
Get your coffee from the coffee roasters themselves at either of their two island cafes! Organic, properly sourced, beautifully roasted, we love this coffee!
88 North Stonington Rd, Stonington, ME, United States, Maine (207) 367-5100 marsden.brewer@yahoo.com
Marsden Brewer, third generation Maine fisherman, has been fishing all his life, whether it’s what he calls low water urchining, scalloping, or off shore ground fishing, shrimping and lobstering. His farmed scallops are an incredible operation (which he learned from the Japanese), and if you’re lucky you might be able to buy some from him directly.
10 Tidal Cove Road Stonington, Maine 04681 (off Airport)
Another fantastic aquaculture operation, Abby Barrows is on a mission to eliminate plastic from her oyster farming operation. Order direct, and pick up from her stand, or find them shucking oysters at various local events.
51 Indian Point Rd, Stonington, Deer Isle, ME 04681-3401 8-4 Mon-Sat
In 1948 fifteen lobstermen joined together and established the Stonington Lobster Cooperative to serve local fishermen buying and selling their lobster. Pick your live lobster from this Coop located right on the Stonington working waterfront.
Around Sedgwick/Blue Hill:
144 Snow's Cove Rd, Sedgwick, ME 04676
Wed-Sun 8AM-2PM
Organically raised Meishan pork, grass fed beef, produce and eggs – as well as many items from other local farms and producers (produce, dairy, bread, flowers, grains, beer, wine etc.) Grab a bite while you’re there: they offer breakfast sandwiches on house english muffins with constantly changing toppings from the farm, as well as summer burger nights with grass fed beef.
70 Sis Porter Rd., Sedgwick 207-326-0783, springtidefarmstead@gmail.com. Farm stand (daily, 9-5) — please double check the farmstand before going
A family-run farmstead focused on raising happy pigs and sheep.
Blue Hill Fairgrounds
Saturdays during the market season: 9am-11:30am
I’m partial to the Stonington Farmer’s Market, but if you are busy Friday and can’t come, Saturday morning backup plan in Blue Hill to the rescue!
Brooklin
853 Bay Rd in Brooklin, the self-service farm stand is open everyday from late-July through mid-November from 9AM to 5PM. Head down the driveway about 100 yards and look for the tent. NoPick-Your-Own option.
Gorgeous certified organic tree fruit and native plants — sometimes with produce from friendly farms.
4 Carlton Drive, Brooklin, Maine 04616 — June 21 - end of September on Wednesdays from 10:00 to 1:00
A 200 year-old saltwater farm in Brooklin, Maine producing certified organic vegetables and timber frames, farmed around the seasons on land that’s been in their family for four generations—cultivating gardens in warm months and selectively harvesting wood in the winter.
Not exactly a farmstand, but one of my favorite local organizations, the mission of the Brooklin Food Corps is to cultivate a resilient and sustainable food system in our community by exchanging knowledge and resources, and by fostering the joy of growing food. They accomplish this through maintaining a community garden, organizing growing and cooking educational programs for all ages, and creating opportunities to provide tools, seeds, seedlings, and produce for one another.
Including a Seed Library, Monthly Crop Swaps, Compost Sales, and incredible workshops, I recommend you sign up to their newsletter and get involved!
Allen House Farm
Lynda and Sean Allen, 110 Bay Rd. Farmstand (daily as available).
Seedlings, vegetables, flowers, occasional baked goods.
635 Naskeag Brooklin
Saturday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm call 207 412-1290 to pre order pies or for events (order by Thursday 3:30 PM for Saturday AM pickup)
Seasonal Pie stand and year round baking.
Penobscot and Beyond:
192 Front Ridge Rd, North Penobscot, ME, United States, Maine
Amazing source of grass-fed meats, and dairy products. I am in love with their Orange Blossom Yogurt in a big mason jar. (Also the ham hocks omg!)
58 Western County Rd. Penobscot, ME 04476
A no-till, no-spray market garden specializing in boutique, heirloom produce grown using organic methods. They also grow many species of native perennial plants in an effort to contribute to ‘rewilding’ the landscape and improving biodiversity by providing habitat and food for native fauna.
I adore this farm, which is absolutely impeccable, and has an adorable farmstand. I am thinking they might not be open this year, but I’m not sure. (Grapevine…)
609 Weir Cove Harborside, Maine 04642 Farmstand: Saturdays 8 AM - Noon for the season.
A commercial market garden and working farm in Harborside, Maine producing vegetables and flowers year-round. An internationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable REALORGANIC agriculture. I haven’t been to the farm since a change of management, but what I have seen is impeccable, absolutely flawless produce — with a long line of cars which are allowed in one by one to the farmstand. A bit of a drive from Deer Isle, but very much worth the trip. I recommend arriving early.
1452 Coastal Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617
Wednesday through Saturday, 9:00AM-12:00PM
Fresh Bread and pastry: with coffee and other breakfast items, available for walk-in purchase in their incredible barn.
Tuesday through Friday evenings, 4:30-8:00PM.
Pizza!! Dine-in reservations are booked online — the gardens around the barn are a dream, and a perfect place to enjoy your house-made pizza.
Nationally acclaimed, I can’t recommend more highly.
4 Rainbow Farm Dr, Orland, ME 04472 Farmstand open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm
Rainbow Farm is committed to growing MOFGA-certified organic vegetables using regenerative practices. They build soils using compost made on the farm, rotating crops, and preventing erosion. Rainbow Farm is proud to be a no-spray farm. Animals on Rainbow Farm enjoy the outdoors where they eat grass, chase bugs, and live as nature intended.​ Our animal products are not certified organic. Poultry is protected by our Livestock Guardian Dogs.
90 Horsepower Farm Rd, Penobscot, ME 04476 Hours — call for availability: (207) 374-5273
Horsepower Farm is a small diversified farm that started in the mid-1970s. They do their field and woods work with Suffolk Punch work horses. MOFGA certified organic market garden vegetables, herbs, and flowers, as well as storage crops for winter sales. Chicken, sheep, and pigs year round for food and breeding. Season/Hours: All year call for availability
Front Ridge Road, Penobscot, ME 04476 Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays 9 AM - 5 PM
Wild blueberries!!
The Farm is on the Blue hill/Penobscot town line not Orland/Penobscot town line.
Coming from Blue Hill (junction of main & Pleasant St.) proceed north on Pleasant st. (Rt. 15) for 6.2 miles, take second farm driveway marked by mailbox # 652. Coming from points north - From the junction of Marks Corner Rd. & Rt.15, proceed south for 0.5 miles, take first farm driveway marked by mailbox # 652.
29 Faerie Kingdom Road, Penobscot, ME, 04476 207.326.9701
Certified Organic. They have a CSA, and you can call for bulk root veggies etc.