One of the things I’ve found most interesting after moving to New England, are the sheer amount of small towns with general stores. Not big box stores with names you’d recognize, but locally owned Mom and Pop type places. It’s almost like stepping back 50 years or 100 years or so sometimes to a kinder, gentler time and I LOVE IT!!!
I honestly can’t imagine ever going to back to a life in high maintenance suburbia. Ever. I have found where I belong. And I’m not leaving. 😉
Last week {or was it the week before?} the HH and I went out exploring and one of the places we ended up at was the Sheepscot General Store and Farm in Whitefield, Maine. I didn’t know it at the time, but apparently there is not only a ton of makers {cheese, bakers, artists} in this area, but a small Amish settlement in this area as well.
So you can bet a bushel of barley, that when Mrs. HB comes to visit me next month, Whitefield, Maine will be on our adventure list.
Homemade bread, penny candy, local fruits and veggies, maple syrup and meats, you name it, the Sheepscot General Store and Farm in Whitefield, Maine has it. This place is the real deal. It’s the kind of place you hope to stumble upon when you see a little sign along the road with an arrow pointing down the lane.
We visited in late March. I can only imagine what the place looks like in the middle of summer when it’s chocked full of fruits and veggies from the farm.
Go for the sticky buns, go for the bulk foods, go for the fresh fruits and veggies, or go because you want to feel like you stepped back in time to a Laura Ingles Wilder novel. Just go! You’ll be so glad you did.
~Mavis
Sheepscot General Store and Farm
98 TOWNHOUSE RD.
WHITEFIELD ME 04353
Terena says
This looks wonderful!
Maine will certainly be a destination for us when cross-border travel is allowed again.
Anne Radesi says
Love the hooked rug and baskets!!
Karen says
Such a wonderful assortment of products, fantastic!
Barbara says
I love Whitefield. There is also an alpaca farm 332 Town House Road. They have a small gift shop. And just across the road is an Amish Bakery.
Melissa says
I love New England and it’s quirks and delights like mom & pop shops. I also know you are kind-hearted and don’t intend any callousness, but when you longingly refer to 50-100 years ago as a “kinder, gentler time” I have to take umbrage. If you were a person of color, gay or even just a woman, life was not kinder, nor gentler.
Julie Kenyon says
Your posts make me want to travel! Not always so easy for a farm family to do though.
Lisa says
Mavis, do you read late posted comments? My hubby and I are looking to move out of the greater Portland area and went to see a house in Whitefield. After the showing, we stopped at Sheepscot and twice you popped into my mind. As I walked around I saw some primitive hooked rugs and wondered if they were yours. And then as I walked more, I had an odd sense that I knew the place already. Pretty sure it was because I saw it on your blog and just forgot the name and place. Or maybe it’s because I belong here.
Mavis Butterfield says
No, they are not my rugs {the cut is much smaller than I use} but I do think they are from a local person. 🙂 I love the Whitefield area. Be sure and stop by the Amish stand along the main road on a saturday and try her donuts cooked in lard. They are FANTASTIC!!