 Tonight we have a farmers for tomorrow fundraiser going on and this fundraiser is to help support our the graduates of our program so we have two programs here at the Center for Arkansas Farms and Food and they're both dedicated to training the next generation of farmers focused in specialty crop production you know these aspiring farmers go through our program they invest their time and energy in learning how to farm we want to set them up for success and give them the opportunities to really make an impact in their community we want to be able to provide them with some seed some literal seed money to get started for you know essential start-up supplies so like seeds irrigation fencing a small amount of money that can help them to get started on the right foot the goals of our program are to train farmers and so you know that is in commercial production so and and each year we have we have two new sets of cohorts that go through the program so what we're really focused on is training farmers for local and regional food production so our programs are really based on experiential learnings the aspiring farmers they learn in the fields but we also have classroom sessions that go along with that in the farm school everybody makes a crop production plan and they make a business plan so they're really setting the blocks in place to be for success afterwards it can be considered a niche but it's definitely a thriving and growing trend and and even more beyond a trend because you know there's farmers that have been you know making their living doing this for years and so we just we want to see that continue on and be successful because our farmers are getting older we have more people moving to the state so we see a real demand there