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Round One Shipped from Maine & New Hampshire
Maine potatoes. New Hampshire kettle chips. A little bit of the food you've been missing. Packed by the people back home who are thinking about you.
To our deployed service members
Being stationed far from home means giving up a lot of small comforts — including the familiar food you miss most.
This package is a small thank-you, sent to bring a literal taste of home to your base. It came together from a potato farm in Aroostook County, a chip company in New Hampshire, and the Quirk employee donation fund. Every bit of it was donated.
Your families made it happen. We worked with them to collect messages of support, and their strength is the real reason any of this exists. What you're holding started with them.
This is the first shipment, not the last. We're going to keep this going as long as people back home keep stepping up — and so far, they keep stepping up.
With respect and gratitude —
Your families · Quirk Auto Group · Guerrette Farms · Wrap City Chips
Round One · packing manifest
Four things went into this shipment. Every one of them was donated. When the next round goes out, it'll be listed right here.
We sat down with loved ones back home to record messages for you. They picked the foods. They told us what you'd actually want. Their dedication is the inspiration behind the whole effort.
Grown in Maine soil by Guerrette Farms in Caribou — about 1,200 acres of Russet Burbank and Caribou Russet in the heart of Aroostook County, the biggest concentration of potato ground in the state.
Two and a half pallets of custom kettle chips, donated and hand-crafted by Wrap City Potato Chip Company in New Hampshire. Here's the part we like: Wrap City already buys its russets out of Aroostook County. The chips and the potatoes in this box come from the same dirt.
$2,500 from the Quirk employee donation fund. Every year a portion of the employees' Christmas bonus goes into that fund, and it gets paid back out across the year to causes the people here want to support. This was one of them. It bought the snacks and favorites your families told us about.
Round One
Give them a follow
Everything in that shipment was donated by the people below. The best thank-you you can give them is a follow, a like, and an order. As more businesses come aboard, they'll show up here too.
The comfort foods
Every year a portion of the employees' Christmas bonus goes into a company donation fund, and it gets disbursed across the year to organizations and charitable events the people here care about. This shipment was one of them.
The potatoes
A family potato operation in Caribou, Maine, run by Ryan Guerrette. Roughly 1,200 acres of russets in Aroostook County.
The chips
Started in 2015 in the back room of a Londonderry sandwich shop with a hand slicer and a countertop fryer. Now kettle-cooking thousands of pounds a week in Derry, New Hampshire.
Open
We've got room on this list. If you want to help fill the next box, we'll put your name on it.
From your families
We brought a camera to families across Maine and New Hampshire and asked them to say what they'd say if you were standing right there. We'll keep adding more as we shoot them.
For local businesses
One shipment isn't enough. We want to keep these packages going out for as long as we can, and that only works if businesses back home keep raising their hands. Any size helps — product, cash, or a pallet of something good.
Still needed
