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Imagine you had 30 pet chickens. Could you tell them apart and call each by name? Acadia Coombs can. The pint-sized 11-year-old powerhouse sells organic eggs from her family's backyard farm along Harpswell Neck Road.

Fishnet Cafe owner Joan Ouellette has sold her popular Bailey Island restaurant to niece Sara King, who plans to reopen the seasonal eatery in May. If you're going to sell your restaurant, what better person to buy it than someone in your own family?

Uncle Pete's Community Market has new owners who are keeping the store open seven days a week instead of five. The Patel family — Sky, Mike, M.P. and Annie — immediately made the change after buying the market next to the post office on Harpswell Neck Road.

Why own just one restaurant when you can have two? "Life is short," said Khristine Leeman, who, with her husband, Zac Leeman, launched Sundrenched on Bailey Island in 2022.