Upgrade Farm Delivery Vehicle

     Helder~Herdwyck Farm, in East Berne, NY is a diversified, Holistically managed, sustainable agriculture family farm.   We harvest the sun while sustainably growing natural, healthy and delicious meats, eggs and fiber for you.  NO hormones, NO steroids and NO routine antibiotics.        We practice intensive rotational grazing in our reclamation work here on a very old former dairy farm.  We heal the land, clean the air, improve the soil and the environment using our livestock, while producing delicious, nutritious healthy meats and eggs.  We produce rare-breed American bred Herdwick cross pastured lamb, wool, yarns, and soaps.  
     We raise pastured, heritage breed hogs for the best tasting pork, sausage and bacon - nitrate free.  

     We custom raise pastured broilers for the happiest, healthiest chicken you can feed your family.       And we are told our fresh, pastured eggs are absolutely the best.  We think so, too.  Below is ours, on the left, and storebought on the right.  Yum, vs Yuck.
     Each week we deliver nearly 40 dozen, and growing, eggs to three stops in the Albany area.  Starting this year, we also began delivering custom ordered products downstate.  This will entail monthly trips of over 250 miles for delivery, not counting drop off for processing and picking up prior to delivery.  Each year our Farm and Fiber business (The Wren's Nest), participate in the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY.  This van is packed solid with hundreds of skeins of our one-of-a-kind yarns, fiber equipement, tools, books handmade products, display equipment and more.

     Our main product and supply transport, delivery and pick-up vehicle is now over 7 years old and is showing its age.  With over 122,000 miles we have come to a point where costs of needed repairs outweigh the value of the vehicle.   BUT, we need to get it fixed as we cannot get a replacement.  Here is what it needs:
Dash fan
struts
brakes/calipers/rotors
tires
shocks
power steering fluid lines
water lines
transmission serviced - or replaced     Helder~Herdwyck Farm reall needs a replacement delivery vehicle but it would take raising the $12,000 we originally campaigned for.  It has not worked to raise the funds to replace it, so we are changing our campaign to raise funds to repair it.
     By helping us with this necessity, you help us lower our cost to you for our excellent products, and keep us farming.   Please help us continue our important work feeding you!  After all, three times a day, every day, you need a farmer!  Support a local, sustainable family farm and help keep us going!  Thank you for your help with this!
    Visit our Farm Website for more information about what we do!  www.helderherdwyckfarm.com