Scully Sea Products is now working with Jolie Rogers Traveling Raw Bar at Barbara Scully’s shop at 707 River Road in Edgecomb. The collaboration was over a year in the making as Scully settled into her smaller, home-based venue after selling her larger operation, Glidden Point Oysters, in 2016.

“This has been nice. Once I sold that company, I was able to downsize ... and I have no desire to be that big again. That's for a young person … I just reduced my size of operations so that it's easier for a one-woman show until I added the guys.”

Between catering events, Jolie Rogers owners Andy Rogers and Ryan Jolie help Scully keep the shop stocked daily with oysters fresh from the ocean. The bivalves are kept on wet storage racks and the lobsters are kept in a tank of seawater. “We don't use chemical 'instant ocean,’ we actually lug seawater up from the waterfront. It makes an extra step and it's a little bit of exercise, but it keeps the quality of the lobster.”

Scully’s products include Appledore cocktail oysters, Damariscotta select oysters, Damariscotta cocktail oysters, littleneck clams, Appledore flats, lobsters, lobster meat, crabmeat, shucked oysters, oyster stew and accouterments like cocktail sauce, mignonettes and herb butter. In the shop, Scully has a large selection of shucking knives, gloves, crackers and other products.

“The things we carry in the shop you won't find anywhere else in Maine. It's not similar to a lot of the gift shop types where you've already seen the merchandise. The things we have here are unique and I know that because most of the designs and the graphics I do myself.”

Scully and Jolie Rogers keep an area on the lawn outside the shop with picnic tables, tents and shucking stations where people can learn the art of shucking an oyster. Scully said if a customer is proficient in it, they make another order and continue shucking their own; otherwise, someone will continue shucking for the customer. There is a surprising demand for lessons, she said.

Scully said the aim of her business and partnership with Jolie Rogers is to provide a personalized experience using products fresh from the ocean and support local families and lobstermen. This has led to the demand for things like shucking lessons and a wide array of products which will be added to, throughout this season with the help of Jolie Rogers, she said.

“There's a lot of demand from customers asking for shucked oysters, oyster chowder, oyster stew, more prepared products. It's nothing I've ever had the energy or capability to handle myself (so) the guys are helping with the heavy things that are harder to do, now.  I've been doing this for 35 years … and it's exciting to be able to follow through with things people have asked for for a number of years.”