Phillips Farms LLC

Phillips Farms LLC, a limited liability partnership based in Milford, New Jersey, is a federal grant recipient that operates as a producer of value-added agricultural products — jams, soups, baked goods, dehydrated fruit, and ice cream — sourced from its own farm and regional producers. The vendor is not a federal prime contractor; all three recent awards in the source are federal grants (two as prime recipient, one as sub-recipient under a state pass-through arrangement), with no contract vehicle participation.

Phillips Farms has received two direct federal grants as prime recipient from the Department of Agriculture. The first, awarded January 3, 2022, by the Agricultural Marketing Service under the Pandemic Response and Safety Grant Program, ran through January 2, 2023. The second, awarded September 27, 2024, by Rural Business Cooperative Services under the LAMP Value Added Producer Grant program, extends through September 27, 2026. Combined, these prime grants obligate $170 thousand across the source period. In addition, the vendor is a sub-recipient of a January 22, 2025, award from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, itself a federal grant pass-through. That sub-award funds the purchase of commercial kitchen equipment — cooking, baking, dehydrating, and processing apparatus — to enable Phillips Farms to expand its value-added product line beyond jams into soups, baked goods, dehydrated fruit, and ice cream. The sub-award work also targets food-waste reduction by processing second-quality farm produce (misshapen, bruised, or off-color fruit and vegetables) into higher-value finished goods and by sourcing complementary ingredients from regional producers to strengthen local supply-chain resilience.

Activity is sparse across the three years in coverage: one award in 2022, one in 2024, and one in 2025. The vendor's federal footprint is entirely agricultural-grant dependent, with no GSA Schedule, GWAC, BPA, or contract vehicle participation.