*Featured photo: taken by Stephanie Zollshan- The Berkshire Eagle
2020 has started off full-speed ahead- only 8 days in and so much to share!
Our land purchase is tremendous news and will allow us to expand and build our small farm, but we still have work to do in order to purchase the family home. The house needs many costly repairs, including a septic replacement, roof, windows and doors, bathroom gut and building two porches. It sits on 2.5 acres, sandwiched inside our 28 acres and has been our home for the past 6 years. To secure financing we must first make the required repairs.
We are half-way there- with a lot of hard work, networking and fundraising ahead in 2020. Please continue to share our campaign and donate if you are able.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/home-repairs-for-financing
Donate through Paypal to: olsen.farmma@gmail.com
Check donations can be mailed to: Olsen Farm PO Box 619, Lanesborough, MA 01237
For the month of January donations of $50 or more receive a one of a kind, hand-made tote bag as a ‘thank you’ gift!
The start of this new decade has brought incredible local news coverage of our work at Olsen Farm. We were interviewed by Berkshire Eagle, and made the front page January 6th with our continued work to re-build the farm.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/in-lanesborough-couple-grows-hope-on-the-family-farm,593958?fbclid=IwAR3THw5S2CvY028U_MWwkh51geVaDHGji3npBvuWR4OceAQh5gznvNpr-W8
Kristen was interviewed about next steps for the farm and ended up on the 6 O’Clock News on Spectrum Channel 1 News on January 7th. Take a look at the interview here:
https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2020/01/07/couple-saves-farm
We are so grateful for the amazing local news coverage and outpouring of support we’ve received so far. We have made it this far in re-building Olsen Farm- thanks to each of you. Please keep sending us your love & support so we can make it over the next hurdle and continue farming the family land in Lanesborough <3