Milkman Musings

2012 CSA 'Feelers'

Comment(s): 1 - By Daryl Mast on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - permalink

Thanks for stopping by! I trust you're here because you may have interest in having fresh local produce delivered...to your door! This spring will begin our (Doorstep Dairy) second year in working with (LFFC) Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op. The LFFC products have been a valuable addition to our home delivery customers.

Doorstep Dairy is a small company. We network with local farms and other food producers. We provide home delivery of their products to our custmers. All our items are listed on our on-line STORE. We feel it is important to link the consumer to the producer, so most of our items have a link back to the producers website when available.

The LFFC CSA delivery model is set up with multiple 'pickup' locations. A customer purchases a share/shares from LFFC. Each week the shares are delivered to pickup locations and the customer stops by and picks up their items. We at Doorstep Dairy have taken the service a step farther and offer shares delivered to your doorstep. While there is an additonal cost to this option, it does offer a great convenience to our customers.

LFFC has offered to refer customers that have interest in home delivery to Doorstep Dairy. So as the Spring/Summer season approaches, we would like to put our 'feelers' out, and get an idea of who would be interested in this service. There may be some areas to which we are unable to provide home delivery, but all feedback would be helpful in planning.

In additon to the LFFC Shares, we have a few of our own as well. The Polish Farmer's Share, pierogies and other Polish foods delivered for 5 weeks (the 1st full week of each month June - October). Also the Cheese Samplers Share, 2 - 3 bars/blocks of cheese delivered for 5 weeks (also the 1st full week of the month June - October). Each month will spot light a different cheese maker from the Chester County Cheese Artisans.

Please take a minute and fill out the following form. This is not an offical order you are placing. We just what to know your location and what you may be interested in purchasing. The prices listed will be the prices for the 2012 Spring/Summer season.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

You can reach me, Daryl, at:

daryl@doorstepdairy.com OR 717-283-4060

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Share the Love

Comment(s): 0 - By Daryl Mast on Thursday, February 02, 2012 - permalink
Here's your chance to treat your special someone, co-worker, or family member to a one of a kind Valentine's treat. This is a win - win for everyone. Join in and Share the Love!

Here's what you can expect.....all delivered to your significant other on February 14th.
- 1 glass bottle of Golden Guernsey Chocolate Milk from Yoder's Country Market.
- 1 Rose from Trisha's Flowers in Goodville, PA 717-445-0152
- 1 block of Chocolate Fudge Cheese, that's right cheese from September Farm Cheese
and
- a singing "telegram" from the milkman and some members of Navy Blue. A local band providing entertainment for corporate gatherings, weddings, and other social functions.
We are all in this to raise funds for charity, get some PR for ourselves, and hopefully bring some smiles to folks on Valentine's Day!

So in exchange for all this we are asking that you make a $100 donation to one of our suggested charities.
1. The Make-A-Wish Foundation^® of Philadelphia & Susquehanna Valley grants the wishes of children with life threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.
2. The Dana Goebel Family. Dana and her husband have 5 children. She has been fighting breast cancer since last year. Your donation will help relieve some of the financial burden that her and her family are facing. We all know someone that has or is suffering from some form of cancer. It's a terrible thing that will change your perspective of life forever. I know, I've been there.
Thank you for considering to support one of these worthy charities!

To reserve your spot on February 14th, call today 717-283-4060

It's first come first serve.* So don't delay!

*obviously we are limited as to how far we can travel. Reading, Morgantown, Elverson are all local for us. Other surrounding towns may also be considered.

Special thanks to PMD Design for branding and making our presentation pretty!

Read what the Tri-County Record has to say about 'Share the Love".
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2011 Recap

Comment(s): 0 - By Daryl Mast on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - permalink

I did a Christmas post last year, and a bit about our New Year's trip...but it seems I never got around to writing anything this year as of yet. Not that life around here is boring, it's anything but that. To kick it off, in the fall of 2011, Karen and I went through a series of classes to become foster parents with the local Children and Youth Services Agency. Then last Feburary 2011, we welcomed a little guy into our home. He was 10 months old at the time. Since then we all have grown to love him and it's hard to imagine life without him. As things stand now, we are actively pursuing adoption and hope that by spring it will be finalized.

Last year at Christmas I handed out a family photo for all our home delivery customers. Until the little guy is officially ours, I guess we'll just be sharing famiy pictures with family. So that brings our total to three boys, ages one, three and five!

Also, this was the year I needed to start wearing glasses. All the smart people wear glasses, right? Feeling old, but ...I can see clearly now the rain is ........!

Another big thing for us was the sale of our livestock transport business, Mast Cattle Hauling. I have been operating the business since 2000 and it has been our "cash cow' you mght say. When we began Doorstep Dairy back in 2010, managing both business' was doable. But as demand has increased for home delivery, I've found myself being spread quite thin. So last summer (2011) we began planning for some changes. January 9th, 2012 was my last official day as a professional bull hauler. I'm excited to see what 2012 has for us. It will be necessary for us to increase delivery to homes in our current routes and add an addtional day also. I don't know, some people will probably say I'm crazy, but...they said that about John Lennon too, right?

In the spring of 2011 we began offering Fruit, Flower, and Veggie Shares.

The boys love to help gather items up and make deliveries.

Halloween had it in for the milk man!

Well, that's all the big news from here. Thanks to all of you for your encouragement and support! We look forward to serving you in the future!

Daryl

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