FARMINGTON — The two-year-old Western Maine Market, an online farmers market with nearly 20 vendors, is now offering Rangeley area residents a local site to pick up orders.

“Rangeley residents have been requesting better access to fresh local food,” said Deborah Chadbourne, who runs the nonprofit market website that was started in 2009 by the nonprofit Western Mountains Alliance. “Thanks to the generous support of Nate and Jess Nichols at the Farmer’s Daughter and Ernie Gurney, a Rangeley resident who regularly commutes to Farmington, we can now provide it.”

The pickup site will be at Nichols’ store at 2485 Main St. in Rangeley. The Farmer’s Daughter sells fresh local and organic produce, baked goods, fine cheeses, gourmet foods, wine and beer. Gurney will delivery the orders once a week on his way home from work.

Chadbourne, who runs Rasmussen Farm in Freeman Township and is also one of the market’s vendors, said the market’s board of directors offered her a chance to take over the market (www.WesternMaineMarket.com) last November after she had been its manager for six months.

She has since lowered vendors’ fees, which are now 10 percent of sales with no membership fee, and the market now accepts cash and checks as well as PayPal. Chadbourne also offers free delivery in downtown Farmington and Strong.

“We have 650 people on our email list that goes out every week listing the products available and the producers, and there have been 123 people who have placed orders since we opened. Since I took over, there have been 17 new customers, and I expect that number to rise as more items become available,” she said.

“Sales have gone up steadily every month and average about $700. In both November and December, we had over $1,000 in sales,” she said.

The online market offers the opportunity for people to shop from home for local food and is great for those unable to make it to the physical farmers markets, Chadbourne said.

It also allows for advance menu planning since placing an order assures the shopper of receiving the food they want.

On the website, the farmers and producers — even a fishery in Sabattus — offer produce, fresh and dried herbs and herbal blends, baked goods, preserved and prepared foods, meat, seafood, and eggs, honey and maple syrup, cut flowers and seedlings, personal care products and gift certificates.

“The market is also great for growers because they know ahead of time what they have to harvest to fill the orders,” she said.

Orders placed through the online market’s website before 11 p.m. on Wednesdays can be picked up at the Farmer’s Daughter from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the following Saturday.

Other pick-up locations are on Friday afternoons at the Western Mountains Alliance office on Front Street in Farmington or at Whitehill Farm on McCrillis Corner Road in East Wilton, and on Saturday mornings through April at the farmers market at the Farmington Grange Hall on Bridge Street in West Farmington.

From April 29 through October, orders can be picked up at the farmers markets on Front Street in Farmington on Fridays and in front of the district court building on Main Street on Saturdays starting in May.

The market is also offering community-supported agriculture shares. For a $100 CSA share, the customer gets a $104 credit; $200 turns into a $210 credit; and $300 provides a $318 credit. Chadbourne said the CSA was instituted to give buyers an incentive to shop at the market, and it provides the organization with money at the start of the season to use for marketing and other expenses.

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