Maine Bunk Beds specializes in building eco-friendly Bunk Beds and Lofts to our customer’s exact specifications. Our woodworking shop is located in Buxton, Maine, just outside of Portland. We are fully compliant with stringent regulations set by the California Air Resource Board (CARB) that govern toxic air emissions from paints and finishes. Our lumber supplier is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, which promotes environmentally sound and socially responsible management of North American forests. Our “white glove” shipping service delivers and assembles beds within homes across the continental U.S.
Katahdin Cedar Log Homes
Katahdin Cedar Log Homes was founded in 1973 and is a leading manufacturer of log homes worldwide. From the very beginning, we’ve been committed to helping our customers make their log home dreams a reality. To do this, we constantly look for new ways to combine the finest materials, quality craftsmanship and expertise to create your log home.
Knotty Goat Soapery
We craft luxurious Goat Milk Soap using milk from our pet dairy goats.
Goat Milk is the #1 ingredient in our cold-process, natural Goat Milk Soaps!
Working alongside our pet dairy goats, we use their milk to create a variety of handmade goat milk soaps that appeal to everybody in the family. Our goat milk soaps include natural ingredients such as shea butter, coconut oil, and olive oil. We add natural ingredients for variety and essential oils for scent in most of our soaps.
We make our cold-process goat milk soaps from scratch. Because each bar is handmade, there will be slight variations from one bar to another, which makes each one unique!
Human Nature
Working with nature to produce bath, body & household products that are good for you, good for the earth!
From soaps and lotions to laundry soap and soy candles we offer a wide array of natural products all handmade by us in New Gloucester, Maine since 2004.
with Digital Eyes Studio
We product original art for personal or institutional decor using metal and digital art. Our latest work is contemporary with rustic overtones. Various sized strips of copper and aluminum are woven together to make a wall hanging. An original abstract image is transferred to the metal using a mono-type print technique. Because the surface is uneven where the strips go over and under each other, areas of the image aren’t transferred leaving the metal to show through. The amount transferred to the metal depends on the tightness of the weave. Abstract work is created from an abstract. Each one is unique. They are sealed with acrylic resin. We follow the same techniques when transferring the original art to copper or aluminum panels.
Grampa’s Garden Inc
In 1993, we founded Grampa’s Garden to provide all-natural therapy and comfort products to help you live a healthy life. Our self-care products help relax, balance, and rejuvenate the body, mind, and soul. Most of our self-care items are hand crafted right here in Maine by people who care about your health and protecting the environment.
With energy prices on the rise we know how hard it is to part with hard-earned money. The good news, of course, is that a warm n’ cozy Grampa’s Garden product around your shoulders on a chilly winter day will not only treat you to comforting, therapeutic warmth, it may help you to turn that thermostat down a notch or two!
Grampa and Gramma called the outdoors “a garden of natural healing.” Their wisdom and ethics remain the inspiration behind my physical therapy work and our line of therapeutic comfort products. Today, we continue to use only the finest ingredients in every product we make.
In health and comfort,
Jacqueline and the entire Grampa’s Garden Wellness Team
Grandy Organics
Grandy Organics got its start in the lakes region of Western Maine, when a homegrown enterprise was nurtured with mounds of organic oats, nuts, and honey. Founded with the firm belief that business is more about having a positive impact than it is about making money, we wanted to “live life organically, love the path we traveled, and keep it real”….
It all started around a campfire at Baxter State Park in 1979, when a couple of friends tossed around a few business concepts, and the idea of making granola took hold. What seemed like a “grandiose” idea soon became Grandy Organics. The granola community that formed cared deeply about the earth and believed in making a positive impact on people and the planet.
Our products meet many needs including; paleo, grain free, gluten free, vegan and kosher.
Fine Mess Pottery
Soda-fired* and garden inspired! Lori at Fine Mess Pottery seeks to nudge the world in a better direction, by adding a little joy to everyday rituals like preparing and serving food & drink.
While talking with a fellow potter the other day, I joked that we don’t have to worry about AI; our craft has been obsolete since before we were born. Machines have long been able to make ceramic dishware faster & cheaper than human hands. Why, then, do we do what we do?
Different answers for different potters, I suppose, but I do it because I want to nudge the world in a better direction. Life is mostly made up of ordinary things, and there’s nothing more ordinary than food & drink. If you can make the mundane tasks of daily life a little more joyful, life is overall uplifted.
That’s what I aim to do.
Slip-trailing – the method by which I create the floral imagery on the pieces – intrigues me because it records the luscious squishiness of slip in what becomes the adamantine solidity of ceramic. The flowers are sometimes recognizable, always stylized, in patterns that repeat but never identically, reminiscent of lace. The slip designs are delicate in appearance, but durable for millennia.
I choose soda firing to complete the process because it introduces an element of the random in work that might otherwise might feel too formal for daily use. I make the pieces carefully, decorate them even more so, then load them up and let the kiln have a go at them. I can still see the path of the flame on the finished ware. It’s like the kiln is a partner in the process, if sometimes a stubborn & opinionated one.
Squishy/solid. Delicate/durable. Formal/ spontaneous. I like contradiction. My phrase for it is aesthetic tension – when an artwork has qualities that speak of two contradictory ideas. Not that the eventual user will be aware of all this; not consciously, anyway. What I hope is to provide enough beauty and complexity to charm and engage them – to invite them to stay in the moment and enjoy their daily experience of using this ware.
*Soda firing is a type of stoneware firing wherein soda ash and baking soda are introduced to the flame when the kiln is nearly at its hottest. The heat of the firing splits the sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate (soda ash and baking soda, respectively) into their component elements, sodium and carbon. The flame carries this vapor into the firing chamber and onto the pots. The sodium interacts with the silica and calcium carbonate in the ware (as well any slips or glazes that have been applied to the ware) to form a layer of glass. It’s fired to a very high temperature – between 2200 and 2400 degrees fahrenheit – so it’s very durable.
Fabula Nebulae Farm to Tub Naturals
Fabula Nebulae is a small, family collaboration that makes all natural products by hand for body, baby, and bath. We chose our ingredients carefully and deliberately, and use only all natural, straightforward ingredients – organic and fair-trade whenever possible.
Ember Grove
Growing up in Maine, with its abundant natural resources and beauty, has had a significant influence on my creativity.
I make all of my own papers, embedding hand harvested natural elements in each sheet to add texture, color, and design, which conveys a sensitivity and detail of nature that cannot be obtained by other methods. I love combining multiple mediums to create heirloom quality pieces, enhancing indoor life with nature inspired creations. I hand form my lamps shades from copper, brass, steel and other traditional lamp making materials depending on the needs of the design. My jewelry is made from sterling silver or copper and covered with my paper, which is then sealed in the same fashion as the lampshades. Custom work welcome.