09/29/2025
👋Heyyyy Friends
Remember us?
We are back with a fun little guessing game. Let's play "Guess What?!"
*wait 3 seconds for responses*
If you guessed that FKTG would return but in a brick and mortar, cafe style eatery; well, you'd be correct!
And if it was EXACTLY those words without cheating, you should probably buy a lottery ticket. I'll take my cut.
Either way- in case you forgot who we are, I'm Claire, the menu maker and cooker behind all of the things here.
I was blessed to previously be given a chance to run a food trailer that had MOSTLY locally sourced goods; from beef to taters. When my beef source left town, I was near burnout and decided to call it quits.
Well, I've been blessed to AGAIN find a space to create some food fusions- but in a different fashion.
You may remember our brunch menu; well, we are going to have a very similar menu basis at the cafe. The difference being we will NOT be frying anything in the cafe- everything will be baked, boiled, sauteed, steamed, pan cooked, etc.
We are working with a few local artisans who are busy studying their craft and we think you will be very pleasantly surprised at the lineup we have. Think from drinks to smoothies to teas to baked goods to cold meals to hot meals to soups to everything we can provide from our humble kitchen.
And we will have FREE house Tea, Coffee, and Infused water during our open hours. FREE wifi and we will eventually like to add on some after school youth services like homework help & the like. This part is all thanks to my cousin Sue, who runs the nonprofit: All Things Become New; a brain injury support service. She is working with a local church to create a "Community Connect" building- a place for people to come in to connect- in a non-denominational but spiritually filling space, nonetheless.
So, her goals paralleled mine, but from much different angles and I thought, why not a cafe?
So, here we are.
As the cafe space continues to take space as the walls come tumbling down (quite literally) I will be posting all updates to the Claire Caters Page and will be tagging this page- but eventually, there will be a "marrying of the two" and it will all become The Kind Earth Cafe. That is coming HERE, as Claire Caters will be a different service within the community.
My goal is to create a safe place to work for people serving foods and drinks that are safe & healing. We will be housed in a renovated kitchen, thanks to stars aligning and prayers answered. We plan to build & grow within the Fort Kent Community; but I'm not discounting a variety of mobile vending options once we are up and running.
I plan to be as locally sourced as possible and in the summers, we will look to source local veggies we have gotten from farm stands and other local farmer friends. I hope to process as much local goods as I can and use my crafty team of cooks/ researchers to find ways to keep some shelf stable local goodies all year.
Obviously, that's a whole lot, right?
Well, it's got to start somewhere and it starts here: check this logo out ;) canva and some hyperfocus for the win.
What do you MISS from the good ol FKTG days? What are your "must haves" OR "must replicate"- because we will be working on serving up healthier versions of our poutines.
Anyways- it's great to be ALMOST back ;)
