Start a Farm Drop
Bring your community together with locally grown food and products from New England.
We’re excited that you’re considering a Seacoast Farmhouse Farm Drop for your community!! Many farm drops start out as an extended family or a group of colleagues coming together to place orders.
Communication
Seacoast Farmhouse sends emails to customers about order cutoff, delivery dates, times, and changes. Farm drop coordinators reiterate the info and ensure that customers are aware of when they need to be at the delivery.
Minimum Orders
There are no minimum orders, buy a whole month’s worth or just a pound, it’s your choice.
Order Payments
Customers have their own individual accounts, orders, and payment information. Coordinators are not responsible for collecting payments. All transactions take place directly between the Seacoast Farmhouse and the customer.
Location
The drop location needs to be such that a truck and large trailer can pull off the side of the road long enough to unload without obstructing traffic.
** If you are an employee/ business interested in offering a drop to your employees please reach out to discuss special offers.
Storage
We provide coolers to keep orders cold. It’s best to keep them in the garage or deep shade while waiting for drop members to pick orders up. One coordinator purchased a small chest freezer to keep in her garage to make pick-up more flexible.
Resources
We offer a group for our coordinators to learn more about the products the Seacoast Farmhouse offers and as a sounding board for ideas. We also provide access to a library of images to be used for posts/ sharing with your community.
Get the word out.
What we ask of Coordinators:
To believe in local agriculture, regenerative farming, and that as a community we can make a difference.
Communicate with your drop members about upcoming order cut-offs, delivery dates & changes to the drop.
Be present once per month at the drop or have someone else take over if you are unable to be there.
Contact members if they miss the delivery.
Communicate with the Seacoast Farmhouse about changes to the drop, customer questions, & feedback.
Agree to have your contact info available to farm drop members.
Earn rewards
How We Show Our Appreciation:
As a Thank You, you’ll receive a percentage of your drop’s total meat sales as a credit towards future Seacoast Farmhouse purchases.
We also hold monthly contests for drop coordinators to earn awards and prizes.
How it Works
Timeline:
Customers place orders through the online store.
We send out an email to all customers 5 days prior to delivery.
Drop coordinators receive an email the night before the delivery that contains the “drop breakdown sheet”. The breakdown sheet has a list of customers that are picking up orders, the number of bags in their order, and their contact info. The email will also confirm the delivery time.
On the day of delivery, we do our best to arrive on time for each drop. We will text the coordinator if we will be later than scheduled.
We check the orders off as they come off the truck.
We are usually at each drop for 10-15 minutes. Gives us a chance to say hi before we get back on the road.
Customers pick up their orders and drop coordinators contact anyone who has not shown up yet.
As a coordinator, you let us know if there are any issues.