Steelbow farm is seeking to broaden its delivery range and increase local food access and supply chain resilience by procuring a delivery vehicle

The overarching purpose of the proposed project is to expand access to local organic produce by eliminating the current constraint of distance and delivery radius while simultaneously addressing the growing demand for product in the current marketplace. Currently steelbow farm has demand for their product that exceeds their capacity because they do not have a vehicle and therefore have a limited delivery range. This bottleneck is hampering steelbow farms ability to rise to the organic market demands. They believe access to this equipment would drastically improve access to organic produce as they could radically increase their customer base and range. For context currently within travis county only .06 of food is produced locally. The austin and travis county areas are seeing a decline in the amount of vegetable farms and farmland which are disappearing at an alarming 16.8 acres a day. Amidst these startling statistics this business is thriving and demand for their produce is extremely high. Steelbow farm wants to be able to meet the market demand and fill the GAP within the local food system. As organic vegetable producers they are striving to increase the percentage of local food consumed within their community.