Wholesale Foodservice Program

Meet Angela and Michael, your wholesale team, always here to help!     

 Email: wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com

Existing Wholesale Customers: Thank you for partnering with us! To support accuracy and efficiency in processing your order, we  request that  all orders be sent in writing to this email address:   wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com.  Please let us know whether you would like us to ship your order or if you plan to make and appointment to pick up here at the farm. When we receive your email, we'll prepare an invoice and email to you. Once payment has been received, by electronic or paper check, we'll ship out via USPS Priority Mail, unless you have requested a farm pick up.  For scheduling order pick up at the farm, please text Michael at 231-730-1529.  If you have questions or need product support, please call 231-228-7235 or email business owner angela@lightofdayorganics.com. As a very busy working farm that does not employ full time desk staff,  we ask that if you call, please leave us a detailed message if we are not able to answer the phone; we'll call you back ASAP.  

NEW FOODSERVICE WHOLESALE INQUIRIES: WELCOME!  Thank you for your interest in partnering with us to offer your customers delicious, Michigan made teas from this award wining small business, now celebrating 22 years in business! We are wholeheartedly interested in enjoyable, long-lasting wholesale relationships which work full-circle to support everyone: our customers, partners, staff, and our organic farms. 

We are pleased to offer a sliding-scale discount only on our bulk one pound bags to wholesale foodservice partners who can answer “yes” to the following  questions:

• Does your business  have a licensed commercial kitchen so that you may serve prepared teas? 

• Are you comfortable purchasing our loose teas by the full pound? One pound of our teas yields 244 (16 ounce servings).

• Are you agreeable to putting  “Tea sourced from Light of Day Organics- Traverse City, Michigan" on your product labels, menus, website, and other marketing materials?   Sun logo or green favicons shown below are also encouraged on your Menus and Website for purposes of  brand recognition.  Since 2005, our farms have been certified USDA Organic and Demeter certified Biodynamic- one of its kind in all of North America. Honoring it, and the miracles of agriculture growing here is very important to us. Our hand-picked crops are of exceptional quality, labor-intensive and rare agricultural commodities. We do not allow private labeling.

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• If yes to ALL of these questions, please complete and email your (1)  New Customer Application,  (2) Foodservice Agreement form , and (3) a copy of your Resale Tax ID to: wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com. Once your completed paperwork is received in full, we will review each application carefully before reaching out to you by phone for a personal welcome, to answer any questions you may have, to provide training materials, and help you create your first order.  We will very likely have your first order ready for pick up or shipping via USPS Priority Mail within 2 business days.   Here's a link to our Wholesale Catalogue of offerings. Please note that due to extreme labor-intensity, not every product offering listed on our retail website, including our retail-sized tins are part of our discounted wholesale program.  What we can offer you is a very successful and profitable prepared tea program where our teas are sold by the cup, teapot, airpot, Cambro, etc. Alternately, our BULK REFILL LOCATIONS are very popular and create an influx of the most wonderful customers in the world to your location. Our discount on pound bags is 10% off pound bags 1-5, then 15% off orders of 6 pounds or greater.  One pound of our loose leaf teas yields 244 sixteen ounce servings if steeped only once, (though we encourage repeat steeps), with an average cost to your business of 60 cents per 16 ounce cup/pot.   Orders must be emailed to wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com for wholesale discount. Thank you.

• Need to start out slow? An alternative to pound bags (244 servings each) would be to start out your tea program using our retail-size tins (at least 50 servings each) to serve from.  You may purchase those directly from our website since there is no discount on our retail-size tins (due to labor-intensity and high cost of materials to produce).  Once your serving tins are close to empty and are ready for a refill, you can reach out with an order for discounted pound size bags.