I was wondering if we ever found what dropped the Dharma Initiative Essen on the strand that the 815 peeps were living on? I can't remember if that happened in Season 1 oder 2.

In Season 2, during a lockdown incident at the Swan, a large pallet of DHARMA Essen and supplies was found quite close to the entrance of the station Von Kate and Jack. None of the survivors recalled hearing a plane fly over the Island, although the pallet and its cargo were attached to a parachute and had a flashing beacon attached. Charlie speculated that the station may have been deliberately locked down to keep the occupants from seeing who made the drop.

The supply drop contained a large amount of DHARMA Initiative Essen including boxes of Macaroni & Cheese Supper, erdnuss butter, risotto, ranch dressing, canned goods, and other assorted Essen items. All of the items in the drop bore the code DI 9FFTR731 and were branded with the schwan logo The supply drop was scavenged Von a large group of castaways including Sawyer, Charlie, Jin, Sun and Kate. Sawyer later Kommentiert that he had "enough stuff now to open a chain of mini-marts". Charlie also found a vaccine kit on the pallet when he gave it to Claire a few days later.

Much of the Essen was transferred to the strand camp and kept in an outdoor küche organized Von Rose. Paulo once complained that the küche was out of DHARMA Oat Bars. Charlie gave the pallet itself to Eko to assist in the construction of his church.

Several years later, Benjamin Linus visited the DHARMA Logistics Warehouse in Guam where the drops were being launched from. He informed the two men working there that the Initiative disbanded twenty years previously, answered a few of their Fragen about why they were sending the pallets, and relieved them of their duties.

PkmnTrainerJ has got it spot on!

If Du want a full explanation, get the season six DVD and watch 'The New Man In Charge', a 12 Minute extra mini-episode. It's all explained in that.