Hawthorne Country Store Santee

Hawthorne Country Store Santee is a pet store in Santee, California. It carries feed and homesteading supplies, including clothing, art, furniture, tack, wild bird supplies, seeds, boots, supplements, first aid items, coops and treats. The store is family-owned and operates alongside locations in Fallbrook and Escondido, and it holds a rating of 4.80 from customer reviews.

The store shares three generations of knowledge and brings in expertise from industry leaders in the community through events and classes. Its calendar includes a three-part home canning series that runs from the essentials of canning through water bath and pressure canning methods, and a Home Flock Celebration Month in April with 40% off storewide items such as chicken decorator and gift wares, wall art, salt and pepper shakers and housewares. A Chick Day event brings more than 100 varieties of baby poultry, with an adults-only preview the evening before. The store also offers delivery seven days a week, with drivers stacking product up to eight feet from the truck bed and up to four bales high, and staff provide free onsite feed storage consultations. Orders can be called ahead for pickup, including delivery out to the customer's vehicle.

The store sits on Woodside Avenue, about a tenth of a mile from the San Vicente Freeway and roughly a third of a mile from North Magnolia Avenue. The Santee Swapmeet is about six tenths of a mile away.

Hawthorne Country Store Santee is known for the positive rating customers have given it, and for a homesteading supply selection that extends well beyond the usual pet store shelf. In Santee, that mix of feed, poultry, canning classes and delivery service gives local households a place to keep a backyard flock or a home garden going.