Lucy is as mindful of making good granola as she is of keeping the process simple. She uses local ingredients whenever possible. Many products come from independent businesses and travel miles are kept to a minimum. If only coconuts and almonds grew in Maine, Lucy would buy those here, too!

Her granola is a golden mix of whole grains and unprocessed ingredients. Oats, wheat and spelt flakes with wheat germ and bran are combined with almonds, coconut, cranberries and raisins. Flax meal adds beneficial omega-3 fatty acids and lignins. Maine Honey, maple syrup from a family farm, canola oil and sea salt round out the mix, which Lucy then bakes to her high standard of perfection. Lucy and occasionally her teenage daughters, Imogen and Cecily, turn every tiny batch by hand. Husband Clifton, when available packages and labels each one as original, extra-seedy or gluten-free. Then son Sam, who is six, stacks and counts the brimming bags. Lucy and her family have just moved up the road soon to Windswept, a low-slung white clapboard farmhouse that overlooks the length of Blue Hill Bay. Your granola now comes to you then from a sun-splashed kitchen with a view across a sloping meadow to a sandy cove. Beyond are wind-driven waves and a spruce-studded island whose most frequent visitors are bald eagles or harbor seals. Keeping her business a family affair in such a happy place allows Lucy to be flexible. That means she can make custom batches for you with organic ingredients or without dried fruit. Just let her know what you would like.