 Beautiful plants here to try to help show the community how they can convert some of the vacant lots that they deal with into not only small businesses but places to supply the communities with fresh organic local food. The SARA program allowed a lot of this to grow quite literally. It would have been a much smaller scale project. We were looking at ways of putting smaller gardens on the lot and the SARA project allowed not only the opportunity to increase the scale of what we were doing but also to involve the community on a much larger scale. I think that this could be used as a model for what other vacant lots can become. There's a lot of initiative in the city right now to get rid of, well not necessarily to get rid of, but to change the lots and to change the face of the city especially in these areas. On some blocks there are five to six vacant lots in one block area and so my intention would be that this could be used as a model to create other local business owners and also community space. It's a really small space relative to the whole lot that is needed to share with the community and so it's incredibly feasible and viable for a business to exist on the same place where there's community space. We started out by canvassing the neighborhood and just letting people know that we were going to be here and that we were going to be installing a garden and asking for ideas and requests, things that they might want to see planted, things that they might just want to help out with all of that and then since then we've started putting all the plants in and all of that, we did a community planting day where we did a barbecue and we brought out, actually it was mostly kids which was fantastic and the barbecues are a way because you know food is in my opinion the best way to bring people together. People, it's like the oldest thing that people have done and so we bring everyone together around food and then we focus the gathering on a topic of discussion. So we've done mulching with grass clippings for soil, for water retention, for nutrients, for the soil and for weed prevention and that was awesome. We did composting rather and then we also did seed saving because we grow heirloom varieties here and so showing people how easy it really is to leave a few beans on the plant, let them dry out, pull the seeds out and then you can regrow those next year. So a huge part of what we're trying to do is I guess what I would say is the full circle, we compost for nutrients so that way you don't need to add ammonium nitrate fertilizer or anything like that. We do companion planting not only for pest control but also for pollination to bring in pollinators. One of our best pollinators is borage and also the water collection. We built this here structure and filling up these nice red barrels here with water so that we can water in times of dryness like we've had the past couple weeks. So yeah, so between the composting for nutrients, the seed saving for seed for next year and the water collection, you really have the full cycle of growth and then death and rebirth in the spring with the plants and you don't really need much input from outside sources. Yeah, we did a talk at Discovery World for, it was held by the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board and they basically brought in groups of kids from different local organizations. One was Urban Underground, which is actually a youth program run by the youth. It's pretty cool. And the topics of discussion were specifically food and agriculture but then entrepreneurship in those fields. And so we talked about urban farming and the opportunity of kind of all of the things that we went through. So started with, well, you're interested in urban farming, what do you do? Well, you need a lot, you need a place to grow. So we talked about the opportunity to purchase these lots in Milwaukee and this lot here was after closing costs was $900. So it's incredibly affordable, incredibly available. And different ways of raising that capital, whether through cooperative ownership, so getting a group of collective owners together to purchase or anything like that. And then moving forward to where you can get resources, like this is all repurposed lumber, and opportunity for them to how they could grow the food, what they would do with the food after they grew it, so how do you get rid of it? We talked about value added product, so not just selling produce but doing things like pickles or we have some fruit, we have raspberries and strawberries so you can do jams and jellies. And because of the pickle bill here in Wisconsin, it allows you to sell those things without state licensing. You just need to register as a business, which is 20 bucks and it's a pretty standard process for becoming a business, registering as a business. So we shared with them all the steps and it was really actually, it was great, a lot of the kids were chattering and talking at their tables. And when they started hearing about the availability of this as an option, the fact that you're running your own business, I mean you are the boss, you are in charge. And the fact that they could sell these things without a whole lot of licensing, that they can get it out of markets, that it gives them opportunities to meet people and doing the markets, you just get to talk to people from all over the place. They were really, I mean all the chatter stopped, you know. And my kind of partner in all of this is my brother, who is 16, which is actually the same age as all of the students that were at the discussion. And so when they heard that, that's when noise came back into the audience because they were like, what, you know, oh my goodness. They couldn't believe it, even the man running the discovery world discussion came up afterwards and was like, you know, 16 years old, like really. So I mean that really caught their attention and it was great. We had, afterwards we took a walk around the discovery world, we had kids coming up to us asking us questions, now even that it was over, you know, they were so intrigued. So that was really cool, you know, it really made us feel really good, it was great, it was really gratifying.