MDI FarmDrop Re-opens

Healthy Acadia’s MDI-based online farmers market reopens for orders on Saturday, October 23, 2021. Customers can visit farmdrop.us/shop and select “Mount Desert Island” to shop for a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables, sustainably-raised meat, fresh eggs, grass-fed dairy, prepared food, bread, flowers, and more. Orders must be placed online between Saturday and Tuesday and picked up on Thursday afternoons at Bar Harbor Farm.

FarmDrop is an innovative farmers’ market that allows customers to shop for local food from the comfort of their homes. Farmers are benefited by minimal time spent off the farm and the security of a harvest-to-order operation. What sets MDI FarmDrop apart from other farmers markets is its embedded $5 handling fee that supports Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Gleaning Initiative – a farm-based food collection and distribution project that makes nutritious, local produce accessible to all people in our community. 

Vendors include 5 Star Nursery & Orchard, Bar Harbor Farm, Bagaduce Farm, Beech Hill Farm, Blue Zee Farm, Coffee Matter, Floret, Lucy’s Granola, Middle Earth Mushrooms, Peggy Rockefeller Farms, Rainbow Farm, Tide Mill Organic Farm, and Wild Breads of Acadia. If you are interested in becoming a vendor with MDI FarmDrop, please be in touch!

The marketplace is open weekly from Saturday morning to Tuesday night, November through May. Weekly pickup of FarmDrop orders takes place on Thursdays from 2-5pm at Bar harbor Farm (115 Gilbert Farm Road, Bar Harbor). For more information about MDI FarmDrop, contact Rachel Emus at (207) 667-7171 or rachel@healthyacadia.org.