 Welcome to Persimmon Hill Farm. My name is Ernie Boner. My wife and I started a Persimmon Hill Farm in 1982. The time we planted two acres of blueberries and we started going from there and planting blackberries, elderberries, and we raised shiitake mushrooms here on the farm. We are primarily a upick berry farm and we do a lot of processing on the farm as well as far as making jams and barbecue sauces and syrups and muffins and all kinds of different things there. I think what we sell primarily is the experience that people can have when they come on to the farm. They can have a family experience but they also, I think that there's a need that people feel to be in an agricultural setting, to pick their own food. It's educational. I guess they call it soft adventure in a sense. People just seem to really enjoy that. I don't think it's a, and the berries cost them a little bit less, but I don't think that's the issue at all. I think the issue is having the experience, being able to be here, being able to be here with your friends and your family and doing an event that's meaningful. One of the issues that we addressed in our SARA grant, in Missouri it seems like when a planting gets to a certain age it starts kind of digressing a little bit and going downhill. We wanted to look at a way, nobody had too much success in replanting and we wanted to take a look at the various soil amendments that we could use or techniques that we could use to bring a planting back or not bring it back, but to replant and have a successful planting and that's what we're doing. We're in our third leafing in the field with our replacement field here and it's being real successful. It's going about like you'd expect for a three-year-old planting, which is a huge success for us because we will have a nice field. We chose Duke as the variety of blueberries that we're utilizing here. We selected several different soil amendments. We worm casting tea. We also inserted worms in some of the rows, or actually in the planting. We also take a look at pine bark. Since we raised shiitake mushrooms we ground up the shiitake logs and we composted those and utilized those as a soil amendment. Then we used coffee grounds, all five of those. We did the bulk of this planting. We used all of those amendments, but in row 81, right over here, we subdivided each one of those plantings into 14 test plantings and we utilized one of those amendments in each one of those segments of row. It was very interesting. At this point, we don't have conclusive evidence, but it seems that we're very pleased that we used the combination of all. Those seem to be doing the very best, so we're very pleased with that. Also, we found that the inclusion of the earthworms and the coffee grounds was very valuable. When we plant blueberries, I think we will be using, at this point, it may change as we go through the rest of this project. We're going to take data for several more years, but I think we're going to always use coffee grounds. We will always include the worms in each planting hole. I think that's real important to have a good environment for them or a good stock of worms in there working for you. I think we'll probably continue with pine bark. A person can use this fragment peat moss, but I don't think there's a magic thing about fragment peat moss. I think the organic matter can be of other sources. I really like the idea of the worms that we use. I think they are real valuable and they seem to be really doing a good job.