Chasse Family Launches 3rd Home Business in Hodgdon as 8-Year-Old Jada Starts Cookie Venture
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Updated · The County · Jun 23
Chasse Family Launches 3rd Home Business in Hodgdon as 8-Year-Old Jada Starts Cookie Venture
1 articles · Updated · The County · Jun 23
Summary
Shiretown Sweets & Treats opened in late May in Hodgdon, with Sarah Chasse and her 8-year-old daughter Jada selling homemade cookies for weekend pickup, local delivery and Saturday stand sales.
The cookie venture becomes the family’s third home business, joining Jeremiah Chasse’s Shiretown Coffee Roasters and sons James, 11, and Josias, 10, who sell eggs to regular customers.
Hodgdon’s 2023 food sovereignty ordinance — enabled by Maine’s expanded 2024 Food Sovereignty Act — lets unlicensed makers sell face-to-face at roadside stands, markets and events.
The family of eight uses the businesses to teach profit, loss and responsibility; the boys reinvest half their egg money into feed after rebuilding from a weasel attack that wiped out their flock last spring.
Every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Chasses’ Calais Road stand pairs fresh cookies with recently roasted coffee, part of a growing cluster of homemade food businesses in rural Aroostook County.