ELIJA Farm + Trellus
ELIJA Farm brings its community together through locally grown food, CSA programs and seasonal offerings.
Through its partnership with Trellus, ELIJA Farm has completed more than 1,000 deliveries, from recurring CSA orders to high-volume holiday baked good deliveries.
With Trellus handling route planning and delivery, their team can spend less time coordinating orders and more time focused on the work happening at the farm.
About ELIJA Farm
ELIJA Farm is a community-focused farm based in South Huntington, New York, offering programs and experiences centered around agriculture, education and locally produced food. Through its CSA program and seasonal offerings, the farm connects its community with fresh produce and specialty items throughout the year.
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The Challenge
Growing Seasonal Programs Without Growing the Delivery Workload
ELIJA Farm’s CSA program and seasonal baked goods give customers more ways to support and connect with the farm throughout the year.
But as participation grew, so did the amount of coordination required to get every order where it needed to go.
During seasonal pop-ups for fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine’s Day, the team needed to fulfill a large number of baked good orders within a limited delivery window while continuing to bake, prepare orders and manage everything happening at the farm.
Their delivery partner needed to:
- Support recurring CSA deliveries
- Handle high-volume seasonal delivery days
- Optimize routes across multiple customer locations
- Coordinate drivers and pickups
- Deliver orders within defined timeframes
- Reduce the time the ELIJA Farm team spent managing delivery
The goal was simple: let the farm focus on creating and preparing its products while someone else handled getting them to customers.
The Solution
A Delivery Partner for CSA and Seasonal Growth
Trellus provides ELIJA Farm with a flexible delivery solution that works for both its recurring CSA program and its seasonal holiday offerings. For large delivery days, ELIJA Farm simply provides Trellus with its recipient information.
From there, Trellus handles the delivery process, including:
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- Route optimization
- Driver scheduling
- Coordinated pickups
- Multi-stop delivery routes
- Real-time delivery visibility
- Proof of Delivery
- Dedicated client success manager
Instead of the ELIJA Farm team spending time building routes, coordinating drivers and figuring out how to get dozens of orders to customers, Trellus takes care of the delivery side from pickup to drop-off.
That allows their team to put its time where it matters most: baking, preparing orders and growing the programs their community loves.
The Results
More Capacity to Grow Seasonal Offerings
With Trellus managing delivery, ELIJA Farm has completed 1,029 deliveries and counting across its CSA and seasonal programs.
For holiday baked good pop-ups in particular, reliable delivery has made it easier for the farm to take on larger order volumes without adding the same level of delivery coordination behind the scenes.
Instead of splitting its attention between producing orders and figuring out how to distribute them, the ELIJA Farm team can focus on making more products and serving more customers while Trellus manages the routes and deliveries.
The result is a seasonal program that has room to grow without delivery becoming the thing that limits it.
Key Benefits
Improved delivery efficiency
Reliable service for recurring and seasonal orders
Ability to scale seasonal programs without adding internal resources
Reduced time spent coordinating deliveries
More time focused on mission-driven work and program growth
Why It Matters
Growing a local program shouldn’t mean spending more and more time coordinating deliveries.
For organizations like ELIJA Farm, seasonal demand can create exciting opportunities to reach more customers, but only if the operational side can grow with it.
By giving the Trellus team the recipient list and letting us handle route planning, drivers, pickup and delivery, ELIJA Farm can focus on what only their team can do: grow, bake, create and build programs for their community.
And when the next holiday comes around, delivery doesn’t have to determine how much they’re able to take on.
