 So my name is Jenna Wilkins. We are in Richmond, Missouri, and we are showing Sarah around our beat distillate project. This was something that was inspired by conversations between myself, a farmer, and a small-scale local distillery of the earth farm distillery. And we wanted to create a spirit that was made from beets. So we wrote a Sarah grant and we're awarded funds to try that out. So myself and two other farmers are growing beets to convert the sugars into alcohol and concentrate them with the small-still. So we are about six months into the two-year project and so far we've experimented with making alcohol out of three different types of beets and have successfully distilled one type, sugar beets, which have the most sugar. And now we're looking to figure out how to increase yields with the next few batches and marketing the product as a savory spirit locally. Beets are an interesting thing to experiment with because they do have some sugar which we thought might lend itself to a fermentation process and because they're so aromatic and represent like a very savory flavor within vegetables we thought that that would be different in the scene of all spirits and alcohols that are out there. The Sarah grant has been really helpful because it provided obviously the startup cost needed to just do the experiment so being able to compensate farmers for their time compensate the distillery for the distillation services and once we have a product hopefully be able to bottle and label it and then also as a farmer working within the project it's been helpful for me to have the framework and the timeline provided by Sarah that provides motivation to stay on track and if we run into obstacles work harder to overcome them and find new ways of doing things or solve problems we run into. I think it would be helpful to small growers especially because it is another way to add value to their vegetable products so if it works to turn beets into alcohol distilleries may be able to pay farmers a more premium price for their beets then they would get a farmer's market potentially and it could be an interesting opportunity to farmers in marketing their farms to different avenues.