The best farm shops in Maine
4.8 from 966 reviews across 16 farms
Organised lists 18 farms in Maine, including 18 farm shops, 11 raw milk farms and 9 butchers. 7 deliver to your door.
4.8 from 966 reviews across 16 farms
Organised lists 18 farms in Maine, including 18 farm shops, 11 raw milk farms and 9 butchers. 7 deliver to your door.



Maple Lane FarmsMeat · Charleston4.9 (280 reviews)Maple Lane Farms is a five generation family farm in Charleston, Maine, farmed by the Higgins family since 1935. Today it runs around 700 naturally raised beef cattle, a state inspected processing facility with an automated smokehouse, and one of the largest hay dealing operations in the northeastern United States. The farm retail store sells locally raised beef, pork, chicken and lamb, every cut done by hand, sealed and flash frozen straight from the cutting rooms with no old stock.
Ordering works by call in: the team fills your order and calls when it is ready, with cash, card and EBT accepted at the store, which opens seven days a week. The farm also sells its Black Label Reserve home raised beef, hay, silage and screened compost, and takes custom processing appointments for customers who raise their own animals. They cheerfully call themselves the candy store for the carnivore.
Nezinscot FarmFruit, veg & eggs · Turner4.6 (266 reviews)Nezinscot Farm sits at 284 Turner Center Road in Turner, Maine, and became the first certified organic dairy in the state in 1994. The family milks 90 to 125 cows, a mix of Holsteins, Jerseys and Brown Swiss, without antibiotics or hormones, and grows 90 percent of the herd's feed on the farm. Milk ships wholesale through the Organic Valley cooperative, while the farm's own fromagerie turns raw cow and goat milk into hard and soft cheeses made on site.
The farmhouse holds a farm store, cafe and bakery, with bread and pastries baked fresh daily and a menu built from the farm's own cheese and meats. A year round full diet CSA offers farm raised beef, pork, chicken, dairy, eggs and vegetables. There is also a yarn shop stocked from the farm's own sheep, llamas, alpacas and goats, and an herbal apothecary run by owner Gloria Varney.
Eureka FarmsEggs · Palmyra4.8 (121 reviews)Eureka Farms is a family run farm at 220 Shy Road in Palmyra, Maine, established in 2010. The farm makes its own Maine maple syrup and keeps bees whose Wildflower Maine Honey is sold pure or raw, alongside jams and other Maine made goods.
You can shop at the farm store in Palmyra, where cash, cheques and Venmo are accepted, or order online for delivery. The farm is open every day of the year, daylight to dark, and hosts seasonal events including Maine Maple Weekend.
Tessiers FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · Skowhegan4.8 (48 reviews)Tessiers Farm is a family run farm in Skowhegan, Maine that grew from a small homestead into a proper source of local food. The family raise beef cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and rabbits naturally, driven by a wish to know exactly where their food comes from rather than settling for processed alternatives.
The farm store is a warm, friendly spot to pick up meat and raw milk, talk about rural life and learn a little about how food is raised. The family also offer custom meat processing and run workshops for the community on fresh eating and understanding your food.
Tide Mill FarmMeat · Township of Edmunds5 (40 reviews)Tide Mill Farm is a ninth generation family farm on the coast of Maine at Edmunds, raising, processing and selling certified organic meats and dairy. The Bell family farms here with an eye on tradition, and everything the farm sells is held to certified organic standards.
The online shop sells organic whole chickens and cuts, chicken sausage, turkey, pork and beef, plus an organic pet food supplement, and their meat can also be found in stores around the region. There is a farm stand at the farm as well, open on Saturdays through the year.
Misty Brook FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · Albion4.8 (42 reviews)Misty Brook Farm is a certified organic family farm in Albion, Maine, producing a remarkably wide range of food from one holding. There is organic raw cow's milk and cream, 100% grass fed beef and lamb, milk fed Jersey veal, pastured soy free pork, sausages and salami, eggs and milled grains, plus seasonal raw sheep's milk supplied by Golden Fleece Farm.
The farm store sits at the heart of the farm on Bog Road and is open daily, all year round, from dawn to dusk. It runs on self service, taking cash, cheques and Venmo, and an open farm policy means you are welcome to have a self guided look around the farm while you are there.
Pumpkin Vine Family FarmRaw milk · Somerville4.8 (37 reviews)Pumpkin Vine Family Farm is a goat dairy on a historic hill farm in Somerville, Maine, named for a Trinidadian expression for the connections that bind people together. Anil and Kelly, who met in Trinidad over a shared love of farming, raise purebred Alpine and Nubian goats that graze the hillside pastures day and night, guarded by Great Pyrenees dogs, and provide every drop of milk for the farm's own creamery.
The milk is tested frequently to meet Maine's raw milk standards and is sold raw in glass at the farm and at farmers markets in Augusta, Rockland and Brunswick, with a winter market in Brunswick on Saturdays. In the creamery it becomes farmstead yogurt made the old fashioned way, smooth chevre, raw milk Somersalt feta and a family of aged cheeses with names like Pandora, Teleporter and Dulcinea. The farm opens to the public on select Sundays from May to October for its own farmers market, self guided hiking, goat hikes and hands on events from Kid Hugging to the Yule Goat.
The Sebago House DairyRaw milk & meat · Sebago4.9 (34 reviews)The Sebago House Dairy is a family run dairy farm at Sebago, Maine, worked by Chris and Zoe, who both grew up in the area and are now raising their own children on the farm. The cows come first here, and the couple keep the herd well cared for while producing fresh milk for the local community.
The farm is open to the public daily, so you can buy milk at the source and see a small working dairy going about its day. There is no website, so phone or email if you want to check availability before you visit.
Saco River FarmsRaw milk, meat & eggs · Standish4.9 (26 reviews)Saco River Farms is a diversified farm in Steep Falls, Maine, run by Farmer Mark and best known for raw milk from its pasture raised Nubian goats. Alongside the dairy the farm raises whole chickens, duck eggs and goat meat, grows organic produce for its CSA shares, and hosts events like goat hikes and goat snuggle sessions on the farm.
The Natural Foods Market at 29 Weeman Rd sells it all in person, open Wednesday to Sunday from 9am to 6pm, and there is an online shop for ordering ahead. Look out for goats milk caramel, raw dog food, organic seedlings in spring, and produce subscriptions that run from May through November.
Highland Farms Sugar WorksRaw milk · Cornish4.9 (16 reviews)Highland Farms Sugar Works makes small, handcrafted batches of pure Maine maple syrup on Towles Hill at Cornish, part of a seven generation family farm that also runs a 500 Jersey cow dairy and a professional timber harvesting business. Sap is gathered from the sugar bush through taps and tubing, then boiled the traditional way on a wood fired evaporator in the farm's sap house.
Syrup is sold in glass and plastic jugs of varying sizes and grades, alongside maple cotton candy, lollipops, maple nuts, granulated sugar and pancake mix, from the open air farm stand beside the sap house or by online order with shipping. On Maine Maple Weekend visitors can tour the sap house, watch the boil and meet Mr Maple, the farm's baby Jersey cow.
Balfour FarmMeat · Pittsfield4.4 (19 reviews)Balfour Farm is a dairy farmstead and creamery in Pittsfield, Maine, making cheese, salami and small batch yogurt on the farm. The range runs from English style cheddars and Maine style gouda to alpine style tomme, whole milk parmesan, brie style rounds and a family of applewood smoked cheeses, alongside salami such as soppressata, chorizo and uncured pepperoni.
Everything is sold through the farm's online shop, which also carries frozen meat and a little merchandise, and the farm itself is open daily for anyone who would rather buy in person.
Our Humble HomesteadRaw milk · Garland4.7 (14 reviews)Our Humble Homestead is a small family farmstead in Garland, Maine, about 45 minutes from Bangor. The family milks Jersey cows for raw milk, reserved online and collected at the farm, and makes butter and cheese alongside small batch goods including grass fed tallow skincare and non-toxic hand poured candles. Heritage, slow growing breeds are the rule across the farm, from pigs, sheep and horses to Bourbon Red turkeys that free range on pasture and are never given antibiotics or growth hormones.
A self serve farm stand is open daily from 6am to 9pm, stocked with the farm's own products alongside goods from other local Maine homesteads, because the family aims to be community sufficient rather than self sufficient. Visitors are welcome, and the farm offers tours for families and school groups.
Painted Pepper FarmRaw milk · Steuben5 (9 reviews)Painted Pepper Farm is a family owned saltwater farm on Goods Point Road in Steuben, on the coast of Downeast Maine. The family milks a herd of Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats, 28 milkers strong in spring 2026, and turns the milk into Dairy Delights in the farm creamery: goat's milk yogurt, kefir, chevre, gelato, fudge, cheesecake and cannoli cream, alongside Not Too Sweet Treats like Maine maple roasted nuts.
A little pink farmstand sits just outside the farm gate, open around the clock every day of the year as a true self serve store on the honor system, with preorders welcome for Wednesday and Saturday pickup. The farm also sells through the FarmDrop online farmers market and natural food stores from Bar Harbor to Bangor, offers a Farmstand CSA share, and hosts monthly Sunday Goat Snuggle Socials.
Hart FarmFruit & veg · Holden4.8 (6 reviews)Hart Farm is a 160 acre first generation family farm at 430 Copeland Hill Road in Holden, Maine, run by Andrew and Becky Toothacker, who met as apprentices studying Biodynamic agriculture and bought the historic farm in 2019, keeping its original name to honour the Hart family. They produce MOFGA Certified Organic vegetables and raise pastured pork and grass fed beef for the Greater Bangor area, viewing the farm as one functioning organism of fields, soils, plants, animals, compost and people.
The farm runs a ten week Summer CSA and a six week Fall CSA with flexible on farm pickups, u pick produce, and a subsidised share fund that reserves a tenth of membership for neighbours who need support, no income verification asked. Farrow to finish heritage pigs are raised on pasture, pork sells as butcher boxes and hog shares, and the family also hosts farm dinners and a Sunday stall at the Bangor Farmers Market. A pay what you want organic veggie cooler stands in Brewer.
Lakes Region FarmRaw milk & eggs · Naples5 (4 reviews)Lakes Region Farm is a small family run farm in Naples, Maine, set up to feed its neighbours well. The family bake as well as farm, and the aim is simple, wholesome food and a strong connection between people and the land it comes from.
The farm opens to visitors at weekends. Milk and baked goods sit at the heart of what is on offer, and since there is no website the best way to find out what is available in any given week is to ring or email before you set out.
Depot Street Meats & DairyRaw milk, meat & eggs · Jay4.3 (4 reviews)Depot Street Meats and Dairy is the farm store of L.D. Farms, a family owned farm in Franklin County, Maine, selling from 29 Depot Street in Jay and from twice weekly stalls at the Farmington farmers markets. The farm raises 100 percent grass fed, grass finished Belted Galloway beef with no antibiotics and no hormones, Maine state inspected, alongside pastured Katahdin lamb, heritage poultry and fresh chicken and duck eggs.
The farm is also a fully licensed Maine dairy for the sale of raw milk and dairy products, with everything tested monthly. Raw whole goat milk comes from its own herd of registered Guernsey goats, primarily grass fed and supplemented with local grains, and is made into a soft spreadable chevre, kefir, yogurt and cow and goat milk cheeses, with a Normande milk cow named Liberty and two Normande heifers from an all grass fed organic herd joining the milking line. A new double milking station serves the goats, and registered Guernsey goat kids are sold from a published kidding schedule.
Dreamland FarmRaw milk, meat & eggs · HartfordDreamland Farm is a family run farm at Hartford, Maine, raising livestock alongside its crops and taking the welfare of its animals and the care of its land seriously. The family sells what it produces directly to its neighbours, keeping the connection between farm and table short.
Raw milk and meat are the heart of the offer, sold from the farm, which is open daily from 7am to 7pm. There is no website on file, so the phone is the way to check what is in stock before you visit.
Tilth & TimberFruit & veg · CastineTilth and Timber is a small scale diversified farm in Castine, Maine, devoted to producing wholesome food and handcrafted goods for its community. The farm grows a wide variety of vegetables and herbs, sold through CSA shares and its own farm store at 165 Castine Road. Sign ups for the 2026 CSA are open, with full season and summer shares in two sizes, and members praise the rotating weekly variety and food that came out of the ground the same day they collect it.
Alongside the produce, the farmers carve woodenware by hand, make herbal care products, and teach spoon carving workshops on the farm. The farm store opens Fridays from 2pm to 6pm between June and October, and Saturdays from 10am to 2pm year round. CSA members know the farmers, Cindy and Troy, by name at pickup, and the farm shares its days' work on Instagram and Facebook.Rebuilding the food system, from the farm up
