Watch your children raise their own farm or make a log cabin.
Homegrown
Homegrown: Using the tasty trifecta of meat, beer and coffee
Steindry uses the three to make artisanal jerkies out of local fruits and meats.
What your dog or cat really needs is a snazzy bow tie
Pups look as hip as their masters in SunFlowerFreckles bow ties.
Homegrown: T-shirts feature scenes from Portland neighborhoods
‘Everyone’s relationship with the city is personal,’ says T-shirt maker and local novelist Lewis Robinson.
Handbags with personality
Kennebunkport woman’s homemade handbags feature everything from motorcycle pin-up girls to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Homegrown: Rustic garden gates, trellises and arbors will keep the deer out
Designs from Teresa England and her husband, Jim, will add beauty to your garden – and the Englands will even set up the pieces for you.
Get clean the old-fashioned way – minus the mercury and arsenic
Allison Humeniuk’s handmade soaps and cosmetics are inspired by the Victorian and Edwardian eras, but leave out the bad stuff.
Is it a wooden vase, or a woven basket?
Jack Lilley’s basket illusion vases are works of art.
Cutting boards still have ‘live edge’ of bark on the side
Neal Foley of Waldoboro crafts beautiful pieces from sustainably harvested wood.
Stop whatever you’re doing. A South Berwick man is selling lobster buoy baseball bats.
Bill Page has made upward of 40,000, and he also sells bases made from lobster trap rope.