 I'm Melissa, and I'm Adam, and we're the owners and operators of Urban Roots Farm, and Urban Roots is actually in West Central neighborhood, which is in downtown Springfield, Missouri. And we are right in the middle of a neighborhood. We're about a mile west of our downtown here in Springfield. We have 1.7 acres of ground here. We also have an eight-unit apartment complex on the property. And so we actually have about three-quarters of an acre in actual crop space. We serve a 75-member CSA here in town. We use a lot of season extension equipment. We have three 30-by-50 high tunnels and a greenhouse. And we've also put a couple of caterpillar tunnels in over the last two years. And we use a lot of low tunnels during the fringe months. We got a serigrant in 2015, in the 2015 cycle, in order to evaluate a system that we learned about through JM40A's book, The Market Gardener. And basically what that system entails is a change in the way that we turn beds over. In a farm on our scale, it requires us to turn beds very rapidly. And the way that we were doing that previously required us to remove crop residues, move them to a compost pile, and then ultimately return that matter once it was decomposed back to the space that it more or less came from. In reading The Market Gardener, we became aware of a system in which you can see this black plastic on the ground behind us here. And you cover the ground with an opaque material for a period of time to accelerate the breakdown of crop residues. Prior to covering it, we flail mow it, which is an implement for our walk-behind tractor that basically pulverizes whatever crop residue is left there. Anytime we use a cover crop, we pulverize those and then cover, which allows us to kill down cover crops anytime we want, rather than just when an optimal kill time occurs. It buys us time too, because a lot of the times whenever you have a crop that you're finished with or maybe it's a crop that went south and didn't do exactly as you had planned, in the past, if we hadn't attended to that immediately and tilled it, then we would just start getting weeds, you know, and we would be irrigating weeds the entire time. And so if we can jump in there now and cover it with this plastic, it's already moving us forward and not wasting any time like before. And we're not contributing to the weed impact and the seed beds. The major takeaways for us on what this system provided for the farm is it had a serious impact on our soil structure. Our soils have much healthier structure. They're much fluffier these days, and they stay that way. One of the principles of this is that it creates an optimal germination area, and what happens is it builds moisture in that upper layer of soil, holds that moisture in there, and warms the soil. And so we can get germination of weed seed at almost any time of the year with these tarps lying on the ground. And ordinarily we wouldn't be looking to germinate weed seeds probably in our beds. But what happens is those weeds come up under the tarp, they find no light, and this is the occultation part, which is the occlusion of light, and they perish, which results in fewer weed seeds in our soil in the long term. Being a small farm like we are, it is very hard to change your ways. And this grant actually gave us that opportunity because we could see the benefits and we could read the benefits, and we were hearing everybody else, but we tend to get into our routine and we know what works for us, and a lot of times you don't have that money up front to just say, you know what, let's just go for it. Let's try this. And so opportunities that SAIR provides was just night and day because our farming methods after that grant have 100% changed.