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Ultimate 2014 Maine Holiday Gift Guide: Over 150 Maine Gifts

BEHOLD! The 2014 Maine gift guide! Here is a list of holiday gifts made by folks from Maine and/or have some sort of connection to the state. Be careful, as this guide is so hot it will likely melt your face right off of that pretty head of yours. Holiday gift season doesn’t have to […]

Maine business owner travels to Costa Rica to see coffee through the eyes of farmers

Carson Lynch is the owner of The Gorham Grind, a small coffee house in downtown Gorham. Earlier this month he took a trip to a coffee farm in Costa Rica with the owners and some of the staff of Portland based roaster Coffee By Design to get a better sense of where America’s favorite drug […]

Making and selling Maine-made products on Etsy and beyond [feat. Herbal Grace Creations]

Herbal Grace Creations, a Maine-based, natural beauty/skin care company, is one of the many small, homegrown operations that I highlighted on my annual locally sourced holiday gift list. There are literally hundreds of these kinds of small vendors operating throughout the state. Whenever the list comes out, people ask me how folks are making an […]

Your ultimate 2013 Maine Holiday Gift Guide

Here is a list of holiday gifts made by folks from Maine and/or have some sort of connection to the state. I am offering it as a service to you because you don’t want to go to the Mall on the day after Thanksgiving. Doing that is just stupid. Sure, you can get a new […]