Local Farms and Bakeries
There are eight farms/producers involved with the
Oxford Hills Food Collaborative.
This page is dedicated to each of these great members.
Harvest Moon Produce
11 Kittridge Brook Road, West Paris, Maine
207-674-5903
Located in West Paris, Maine, we provide healthy, seasonal vegetables grown by sustainable farming methods. (Pictures below are spring 2007)
Beep's Bakery
1122 Main Street, West Sumner, Maine 04289
207-388-2741
Located in West Sumner, Maine, we make home made hand-cut donughuts, breads, muffins, whoopie pies, bars / squares and brownies from scratch. When available we purchase local ingredients such as eggs, buttermilk, whole milk and honey from area producers. Choices for all our other baking supplies have been carefully thoughtout, for example; we use unbleached and unbromated flour with barley, non-aluminum baking powder, fresh, dried or frozen berries, and sea salt.
Jackson's Sugar House & Vegetable Stand
50 Hebron Road, Oxford, Maine 04270
The Jackson's supply quality farm fresh produce to the public. Their products are highbush blueberries, sweet corn, cucumbers, peas, potatoes, greens, squash, maple syrup and maple syrup products. They use intergrated pest and weed management, utilize both commercial and organic fertilizers (manure) and spray insecticides and herbicides. Spraying ceases two weeks before harvest.
Roger Jackson uses crop rotation and cover crops like winter rye and fescue to build up his soil and reduce the need for pesticides and other chemicals.
Kangas Farm
82 Cushman Road, Bryant Pond Maine 04219
207-665-2053
Dick and Louise Kangas have owned their ten acre orchard in Bryant Pond for 30 years. Producing Early Red Pontiac and Norland red potatoes, Kennebec potatoes along with many apple varieties. Paulared, Red Wealthy, Jonamac, Gala, Cortland, Honey Crisp, Liberty, Jona Free, Golden Delicious, Idared, Northern Spy, Gold Rush and Granny Smith. The Kangas' say it is difficult to raise apples organically. They use limited spraying and cease spraying in mid-summer to allow time for the chemicals to wash off and break down. The Kangas' will be at both the Norway and Fox School farmers' markets in mid August, when the apple crop ripens.
Grover's Berry Farm
Ronnie & Jeannie Grover
9 Curtis Hill Road, West Paris, Maine 04289
207-674-3981
The Grovers are a first generation berry farm providing their customers with healthful, delicious, locally grown fruit. Products are Raspberries, Blueberries, and Mulberries, all naturally grown with out chemicals. On the farm they use animal manure and wood shavings for fertilizer. No herbicides or pesticides are used, preferring some crop loss and extra labor to chemical use.
The Kidd's Hillbilly Farm
288 Tuell Hill Road, Sumner Maine 04292
207-388-2919
Candi and TJ Rousseau have had animals for the past three years; dairy and meat goats, steers, chickens and turkeys. This will be their first year growing organic vegetables for sale. In addition to selling to the Oxford Hills Food Cooperative, they will be a vendor at the Fox School farmers' market.
The Progress Center Gardens
35 Cottage Street Norway Maine
For the first time, the Progress Center has entered the organic farming business. With the full cooperation of the land owners, and dedication of both staff and clients, this venture has been very rewarding so far this growing season. There is a regular group that has been tending the gardens since before the seeds were planted. Now that everything is growing and starting to ripen, the business side of the project will now come into play. They will harvest, market and sell their produce to the local people.
Rising Sun Cafe' and Bakery
130 Main St. South paris, Me. 04281
743-7046
We are pleased to Welcome Sarah and her crew from Rising Sun to our family of suppliers for the 2009 season and beyond. Besides and excellent array of baked goods and pastries, they also offer fresh salads, sandwhiches and soups to name a few. Look for specials throughout the year and great special items for order during the holidays.
Pineland Farms and Creamery
92 Creamery Lane
New Gloucester, ME 04260
(207) 688-6400 phone
(207) 688-6411 fax
Pineland Farms is proud to craft our own delicious, world-class cheese right on the farm.
They have created a flavor, texture, depth and complexity that you must experience to appreciate. Their cheese's unique and handcrafted quality starts with an exceptional key ingredient: the freshest milk possible. The Creamery is just a stone's throw from Their barns, where the internationally renowned herd of Pineland Farms' Holstein cows grazes happily on hundreds of acres of rich grasslands.
Their premier cheese maker approaches his craft as an art form, using centuries-old techniques with meticulous care. Brand-new, state-of-the-art equipment and technology ensures the highest level of food safety and purity, from milk delivery to cheese packaging.
Their cheeses embody everything good about traditional Maine dairy products - fresh, local and made with personal pride.
Meadow Ridge Perennial Farm
Meadow Ridge is a small perennial farm nestled at the base of Mt. Marie on Back Street in Hebron, Maine. We are pleased to provide our customers with hardy perennials and beautiful flowering shrubs for all seasons of gardening. Our perennials are hardy plants over-wintered at our farm to ensure their survival through frigid Maine winters in your gardens. We also offer fresh cut flower bouquets consisting of a combination of perennials, spring and fall planted bulbs and annuals. This combination of plants allows us to have beautiful flowers for cutting throughout the growing season.
Jaycee and Cindy use no spray or when absolutely necessary minimal, low impact spraying on their plants being mindful of the environmental effects in the care of their plants. Meadow Ridge will also be at the Norway and Fox School Farmers Markets.
