Stone Broke Bread & Books started as a Community-Supported Bakery focused on making naturally-leavened breads that are simple, delicious, nutritionally dense, and highly digestible, with a strong focus on local, sustainably sourced and produced ingredients. But it's become a whole lot more. Organically growing out of our homestead and arts backgrounds. Our family-run business is now a brick-and-mortar small press bookshop and naturally-leavened bakery.
As a family adhering to the care and attention of our bodies, our relations, and our environment in ruralish Maine, we chose to homestead – what does this mean to us? It means we intentionally direct our lives towards the well-being of all, in this attention to our food, our land, and our community. It means paying attention to not just what we eat and do, or how we live, but how (and why) we do those things, as well. We experiment with what works and try to learn from what does not.
Stone Broke is one result of this ethos and experimentation. It began with baking and breaking bread with friends, and has grown organically into a small, sustainable, community centered project. We are focused on making great bread and the things that can come of sharing that bread with a larger community.
Our bakery attends to the details with an eye toward locality, accessibility, sustainability, and community building. This is why we use local, organic, and sustainably produced and sourced products and materials whenever possible. This is why we work to keep our bread at a reasonable price. This is why we work with local food accessibility programs to provide support for those in need. This is why we strive to connect directly with our customers whenever possible, face to face if not eye to eye.
And this is why, when the time came to move to a new space, we chose to add a bookshop focused on a curated collection of only small press books (no big publishers, no big distributors) to cultivate a community for underrepresented voices and care-building (women, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, DIY, poetry, alternative politics, ecology, and healthcare/spirituality) with events to go along with the readings.
Our goal is to provide space to focus on small publishing houses and events that match our community's values, bringing attention to diverse, alternative, and under-represented interests. We want to bring opportunities for different perspectives to the community we care about. Bread, books, and connections to people create spaces of care and we want to be a part of the change that increases these values, opening the door to the many like-minded folks who want examples and resources for their own further goals. We hope to combine our love of art, philosophy, foraging, baking, ecology, writing, and community in a way that uplifts us all and brings us together. Our mission is to provide deeply enriching sustenance to the bodies and minds of our community.
And we do our best to live that everyday and to give that to our community in whatever way we can.
As a family adhering to the care and attention of our bodies, our relations, and our environment in ruralish Maine, we chose to homestead – what does this mean to us? It means we intentionally direct our lives towards the well-being of all, in this attention to our food, our land, and our community. It means paying attention to not just what we eat and do, or how we live, but how (and why) we do those things, as well. We experiment with what works and try to learn from what does not.
Stone Broke is one result of this ethos and experimentation. It began with baking and breaking bread with friends, and has grown organically into a small, sustainable, community centered project. We are focused on making great bread and the things that can come of sharing that bread with a larger community.
Our bakery attends to the details with an eye toward locality, accessibility, sustainability, and community building. This is why we use local, organic, and sustainably produced and sourced products and materials whenever possible. This is why we work to keep our bread at a reasonable price. This is why we work with local food accessibility programs to provide support for those in need. This is why we strive to connect directly with our customers whenever possible, face to face if not eye to eye.
And this is why, when the time came to move to a new space, we chose to add a bookshop focused on a curated collection of only small press books (no big publishers, no big distributors) to cultivate a community for underrepresented voices and care-building (women, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, DIY, poetry, alternative politics, ecology, and healthcare/spirituality) with events to go along with the readings.
Our goal is to provide space to focus on small publishing houses and events that match our community's values, bringing attention to diverse, alternative, and under-represented interests. We want to bring opportunities for different perspectives to the community we care about. Bread, books, and connections to people create spaces of care and we want to be a part of the change that increases these values, opening the door to the many like-minded folks who want examples and resources for their own further goals. We hope to combine our love of art, philosophy, foraging, baking, ecology, writing, and community in a way that uplifts us all and brings us together. Our mission is to provide deeply enriching sustenance to the bodies and minds of our community.
And we do our best to live that everyday and to give that to our community in whatever way we can.