A local T-shirt maker’s slogans are likely to make you groan – and make you hungry.
Homegrown
Maine-made hair ties celebrate bees and Beyonce
The staff at Daytrip Society crafts the ties, which often have themes from the natural world.
Grow some roots in Maine, then hang them on your wall
Miles Perry makes wall art that shows a sense of place.
Here’s another weapon in the war against ticks
Flick the Tick battles insects without chemicals.
Jewelry with a message for hope
Ebenezer Akakpo’s jewelry incorporates Ghanaian symbols for hope, strength and other positive traits, and some of the proceeds go to pay for water filtration systems for the poor.
Cremation jewelry – holding remains of people, pets – becoming more popular
Limington jewelry designer Amy Richardson fuses ashes into glass jewelry to help ease her customers’ grief.
Skeeter Skidaddler repellent, a Maine product, will keep you safe
Windham man creates organic repellent that fights off flying, biting insects.
Oatmeal crumb tarts from Oats Any Time are bursting with fruit and as satisfying as oatmeal
And they have a great backstory, too.
Buy a lamp like your great-grandfather used
Peter Lovell’s copper lamps are based on styles from the turn of the 19th century
Drinking seaweed is not weird anymore
Josh Rogers has developed a new line of teas made with kelp, dulse and bladderwrack called Cup of Sea.