 What we are today is a really a farm to bottle distillery Right where it's grown. We grow our own corn and sweet potatoes to make the signature vodka that we make today and it's a week we have a Tasting room an open area where people can come in enjoy and have a nice cocktail But we in the back is where all the process and takes place The magic happens in distilling my wife and I both are from this this area grew up in Small town north here between here in Mariana went to high school in Mariana and graduated from there and Have fond memories of Helena and downtown Cherry Street. My dad started farming sweet potatoes in In the 80s early 80s and farming back then got got really tough One of the things that was happening was you know You had to get really really large or at least large enough to sustain farming and row cropping Or get out and many farmers at that time got out of farming or diversified my dad chose to diversify So sorry for my sweet potatoes and farming sweet potatoes at a large scale I wanted to share with you though my granddad who actually bought our farm I Had been pictured here and then his dad was also farming on that land But he was a sharecropper never owned it and my granddad was also a sharecropper But he was able to buy that land so it's the same farm we own today I had the whole concept came back with my brother and dad and they had gone out to a farmers a vegetable farmers conference and he said these guys were doing some amazing things with sweet potatoes and this was probably seven eight years ago and Probably doing a time when you start seeing sweet potato fries and pies and turtles and torches and he came back and was talking so excited about this Sweet potato, but he also said that there was a booth at this conference that had a guy from North Carolina that was the one sweet potato bucket and my son and I had been working for a Long time I say a long time in the big scheme of thing. Maybe it wasn't we worked six months trying to perfect the product and get it right We went batch after batch after batch until we got a good combination of sweet potatoes and corn To make what we consider the best sweet potato bucket in the country I don't know. We just saw the opportunity and I will say my dad Always did say hey if somebody's doing it you can do it too. So we just figure out a way