 So I'm a first-generation farmer and this all started by just me wanting to raise a beef and a pig for my own benefit and so I just thought you know I want some quality meat and I'm just gonna raise some because I had a little bit of land and so I did and it turned out great and next thing you knew other family members said hey next time you put me in on that because we won't in on this and so family members and friends and long story short within a year or two you know we had four five six eight beef I was raising for everybody that was in you know my circle of influence and so since I've always been an entrepreneur and I've always been a business person I thought man I can raise 15 or 20 just as easy as I can raise six or eight or ten and so the business kind of took off as a hobby it started out as something personal but turned into a hobby but then it really took a big turn for us and it really changed for us when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and so we spent a good year and a half going through surgeries and chemo's and radiations and all of this stuff and finally of course we got the the all-clear we were in remission and we were happy and but a few months later it had all come back and so that that course of 18 months anybody that's been through that knows how hard that is and it was very hard on a family and so when it came back we both my wife and I both decided you know we can't go through that again it almost killed us it was rough so we began looking at alternative ways so there is some management practices that we implement to try to produce a high quality beef while at the same time regenerate our soils and and be good stewards of this creation so you can see the animals behind me behind me here you can see some high tensile electric wire fence forage has a growth curve and so once it reaches seed head it pretty much says its life is over and once it's beginning to start to grow it it takes a while for it to hit but when it gets into that middle stage that's its rapid growth moment and so we use herbivores to manage our forage and we're using some things of electric wire to give them the proper paddock size that that they can get the best out of the forage they can keep the forage in its rapid growth mode people definitely want high quality meat and we want to you know do it in a sustainable regenerative way and we want to push this but of course if the product itself is not any good people are not going to promote it and they're not going to support it so we use angus we use a very specific line of angus we use smaller angus so that we don't have to have supplemental feed we don't have to keep them fed up we might call it low input that we can put on forages and they can fully sustain reach their physiological size they can put inter muscular fat into the marbling of the meat and do it all on forage so of course our business model is to produce proteins that people can purchase that is not only regenerative to the to the creation but also very beneficial and nutritious to them so we raise beef we raise pork we have chosen specific genetic lines that can do that on the forages that we produce so so here we come 10 years later after all these events and so we have not looked back we've we've totally dived into a holistic life and and my wife is still cancer-free to this day we want things to be natural we want it to be the way that God has intended it and that's the model that we've chosen and so what we've seen over the course of 10 years of doing it is that that model definitely works so we keep we continue to educate ourselves we continue to implement new things but we use nature as our model we're passionate about that and we believe that when you become passionate about and you start implementing in your life you're going to see the benefits of it as well