Wood Prairie Farms Bridgewater ME

1. Potatoes and Vegetables by Mail Order Catalog Wood Prairie FarmsBridgewater ME

2. Wood Prairie Farms • Owed and operated by Jim and Megan Garriston • Certified organic potato and seed Potato farm • Plant unique colored and size potato.

3. Wood Prairie Farms • The farm is set on 100 acres of which only 55 acres is plantableand of those acres 10 to 12 are for potatoes. • Potatoes support their mail order catalog. • Besides potatoes they also sell vegetable, flour, sea salt, and cheese.

4. Wood Prairie Farms • Wood Prairie Farms relies on satisfaction of their customers for promoting their business to other people • One way they do this is shipping their product when outside temperature during the entire route is between 20 and 48 degrees to ensure freeze free and out of ground freshness. • They are also humidity sensitive as well. • They would often call customer to insure their product arrived to the satisfaction of the customer.

5. Wood Prairie Farms • They switched from totally relying on paper catalog to web catalog to cut cost of advertise. • Advertising in a variety of magazines cost annually 10k to 20k. The first few tries at web catalog ended in failure because of computer programs were not familiar with ecommerce. Had very little understanding of ecommerce themselves which put them at an even more disadvantage.

6. Wood Prairie Farms • They had a very successful business with the mail order catalog which provided a sound foundation to their business when the web site did not work for them. • They were introduced to Commerce V3 who specialized in online storefront • Commerce V3

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