Anne Cox and Julie Wortman founded Hedgerow in 2003, six years after moving to Martinsville, an historic village area on the St. George Peninsula. Led by Cox, who has a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan, Hedgerow was at first primarily a landscape design, installation and gardening-maintenance business with clients located from Islesboro to Waldoboro. Hedgerow continues to provide landscape design and installation services to a selected number of clients each year.

Eventually Cox and Wortman began expanding the vegetable gardens at their Martinsville property, which led to the opening of a small market in their barn. At that point Hedgerow became a retail location. A partnership with India and John McConochie of Green Bean Cookhouse (located on the river side of the St. George Peninsula) expanded the market’s offerings to include prepared food particularly appealing to the peninsula’s summer clientele. Specialty grocery items are now also available.

At the same time, Wortman, who has advanced degrees in the history of art and architecture and a background in journalism, began expanding the market into a shop offering a carefully curated selection of goods both vintage and modern for home and garden.

Cox’s interest in creating rustic furniture and original hooked rugs eventually garnered sufficient recognition to merit the addition of a small gallery in which to display her work, which now also includes paintings. The gallery also sometimes features the work of other Maine artists and artisans.