09/15/2026
Goodness, I have been terrible at posting. Since January and moving into frozen manufacturing everything has just sped up and navigating all of the pieces has left little time for social media.
As a business owner I am laughing at myself for not making time to share all the amazing things happening at Portable Pie, but when each piece is run by just the two of us it leaves too many hats to wear.
We are celebrating our third year as a brand and I cannot believe how quickly things have changed. We have this terrible habit of jumping off cliffs and building our wings on the way down and although the risks have been high, they landed us in a very unique position.
Last year we made the decision to pull back from food truck events and focus on working with the USDA weekly to produce our savory hand pies as a frozen product. Quickly, we began to join up with great restaurants and pubs across the state and spread our pies into grocer freezer sections around the Midcoast.
We sold our large food truck to a good friend who is doing amazing things with her, and kept our small bus. We have her fully rigged out now for large events like the Maine Celtic Celebration and Common Ground Fair.
We are currently in full production mode and between all of the facets we have produced 65,000 hand pies just this last year. Incredible when you realize that all the parts are handmade by two people.
It has not left much time to venture out of the kitchen so if we have not seen you around, or at our usual haunts, its not because we don't love you, we are most likely covered in flour or running one of the hundreds of reports per week for all the inspections. We also do all of our deliveries ourselves so many days out of the kitchen we are stocking freezers around Maine.
We were so excited to once again be named one of the top six food trucks in Maine by Down East Magazine and although we feel like it is probably the last year for any food truck recognition we are excited to be up for some of the different kinds of awards. We are up for a Golden Fork Award which highlights Maine food manufacturers, and a few grants.
We were also just chosen for an Accelerator membership through the Maine Center of Entrepreneurs, and will be at many of the food manufacture showcases this next year.
It is such a different operation than what we have been doing and this year we are gonna add a few fun things. Along with our hand pies and sausage rolls, we will be adding 4 inch tall side double crusted meat/veggie pies. We are almost completed with the USDA certification and they will be gorgeous and delicious. We already have 70+ flavors but with a new way to present them, we are adding way more flavors.
We will also be dropping a little "pie pick up" shed on our property in Searsport for fun "grab and bake" options. The flavors we will have in the freezer here will be the ones that are not wholesale USDA certified so the shops will still have exclusive access to those flavors that are!
I will be better at posting some pictures of our new pies and fun things that are changing. Thank you for following us on this journey so far and we are forever grateful for our lovely pie-friends.
Come see us in the truck at Common Ground Fair, (25-27) or Sardine Fest in Searsport on October 3rd!
Love you all!
