Maine

Maine's Own Treats is a small-batch jam, jelly, and syrup maker in Trenton, Maine, with roots back to 1975. The company started with K. Weymouth Howard, Jr., a …

Lickity Paws is a South Portland, Maine dog-treat company making frozen and freeze-dried “pup cup” treats. The brand comes from Stacey, a trained chef, recipe …

PBJ Dog Biscuits is a Falmouth, Maine dog-treat company started by Shawna Jette after her own dogs turned out to be allergic to chicken. The first recipe came …

Timber Bark Treat Co. is a Chester, Maine pet-treat company making small-batch jerky and chews for dogs and cats. The brand began as TriPom Chews in 2008, when …

Ruff Pine Dog Treats is a Maine pet treat company run by Nicholas and Emily Conley in East Waterboro. The Conleys started making treats for their own dogs, …

Rugged Seas turns worn commercial fishing gear into bags, wallets, backpacks, clutches, hats, and coastal apparel. Nikki and Taylor Strout started the Maine …

Bonsie makes baby clothes for one specific job: keeping skin-to-skin contact easy without undressing a newborn every time. The company was founded by Anna …

Cold Current Kelp is a southern Maine skincare company built around one ingredient most beauty brands only borrow for the label: kelp the founders grow …

Nautical Farms is a Machias, Maine, seaweed company started by Morgan Fogg and Jake Patryn in 2017. They grow organic kelp off the Maine coast, then turn it …

North Spore is a Portland, Maine, mushroom company founded in 2014 by Eliah Thanhauser, Jon Carver, and Matt McInnis. It began as a small mushroom farm and grew …

Grain Surfboards builds wooden surfboards in York, Maine, with a simple premise: a surfboard should not be disposable. The company began in 2005, when Mike …

Unfiltered Skin Care is a small-batch skincare brand on the coast of Maine, founded by Brionne Beck after she started making a simple moisturizer her own skin …

Two Little Beans & Co. is a Maine baby clothing brand that makes booties, bibs, beanies, quilts, bows, banners, gowns, leggings, tops, dresses, and small gift …

Maine Coast Sea Vegetables is a Hancock, Maine company built around edible North Atlantic seaweed. Shep and Linnette Erhart founded the business in 1971, …

Avena Botanicals is a Maine herbal apothecary founded by herbalist Deb Soule. The company makes extracts, alcohol-free glycerites, salves, oils, flower …

Herbal Revolution is a Maine herbal company founded by Katheryn "Kathi" Langelier in 2009. The company makes teas, bitters, elixirs, tonics, glycerites, and …

Flowfold started with a broken wallet and scrap sailcloth. Founder Charles "Charley" Friedman was working at a sail loft in Maine when his grandfather's old …

L.L.Bean is not a tiny discovery brand. It is a 1912 Maine institution with a giant retail footprint, a catalog legacy, and a Freeport store that has become its …

RAWZ Natural Pet Food comes from the Scott family, the same family behind Old Mother Hubbard and Wellness before those brands were sold. RAWZ is the newer …

Peace House Studio is a small children's clothing brand from Bath, Maine, started by Kate and Nick after their first daughter was born. They wanted kids' …

Most skincare ingredients come from a lab or a farm. Marin Skincare's signature ingredient comes from a lobster. Amber Boutiette, a biomedical engineer, and …

Jennifer Scism won Iron Chef, co-owned a celebrated Greenwich Village restaurant with chef Anita Lo, and spent years in New York's fine dining world. Her …

Joyce Belcher is a certified herbalist who spent years studying under respected teachers — Amanda McQuade Crawford and David Winston among them — before she …

Atlantic Sea Farms is a mission-driven seaweed company based in Biddeford, Maine. They're the largest domestic seaweed supplier at scale in the United …

Raye's Mustard has been cold-grinding mustard seed in Eastport, Maine since 1900. That's not a marketing line — it's the operational reality of the last …

Kate McAleer founded Bixby & Co. in 2012 — almost 2012, she says — in Rockland, Maine, inside a 125-year-old former ice plant on a working marina. The name …

Primitive House Farm is a family-owned and operated business located in Saco, coastal southern Maine, founded in 2002 by mother-daughter duo Nancy and Meg …