so we decided we wanted to start farm so we just started planning it like our junior year and then when we graduated we all just did it one floor and so we thi oh yeah the learning curve is steep because we know i didn't have that much experience like that none of us have that much experience so the business aspect of it like we are a pretty good beginning  know how things work and how much time things at the end of our first year these two had to go back to school so we had it was a shorter season but so this this being our third year is the first time we felt like we have a really good handle on what to do and feel like we got a good jump on this year we started the c s a last year second year with the c s a but the flood not to we got we got wiped out you know late august so we really didn't have  that long of a growing season that this last year so this is been our first real season and i feel like if we start stuff in the heat a greenhouse and february late february early march milla march and then we're usually done by thanksgiving early december i felt like there was a lot of people in the community that want to support us it's a good way for us to do it because being we don't have we have like a ton of start up capital so just for bikes eating getting fertilizer or you know compost and all the things that we need to get going to be here it's like really nice to have a boost when you need it like before your points up at the ground so it's been it's been fun to to  attack something like this because you don't really we had no idea really what we were going ourselves into and for for all of us we bring different things to the table and when we when we have such a different skill sets allows us to develop the business and in different ways through what we know and then what we're willing to attack and so i think for for someone like ethan he tackles totally different things and then we then  would and i think that that's that's nice because then we can the business develops in a different way and so we were the farm would be you know totally different if one of us wasn't here well we all do everything except i do like i do the books ethan keeps track of all the stuff that jake and i wouldn't think of like oh all the little stuff and jake just keeps us on task and i mean it's like but then we were most of the time we were working together all sorts of yeah it's fun and this is the time of year when things start to take off we just are squashes are starting to really develop into big plants and you know sweet potatoes are starting to spread out garlics about to be done and it will be a you want to have it like wide variety you want to kind of have something that everyone like everybody's going to want so we've been trying to do that and if you know it's hard to be in a season you have like almost all greens but as things pick up it's i think it's nicer in the farmer market to have like a really nice farmer's market and found that you just like want to have a lot of color and a lot of variety so that's very much what's been aiming to do is just grow everything which maybe it's harder farming for us because you have we're in experience and you have to know more to grow walk there and we have a c s a which is in the middle of richmond so we keep our produce pretty close to the land is all blocks my parents and they've had it since the mid ninety's and we've it's nine nine acres here and we have a field planted up on thompson road and that there's five acres there and we ran the house that up on the corner there from my parents all this is my parents land they're generous enough to let us use it it's all a field so everything here has been converted into fields from this is just an old hay field we put the greenhouse up in october of two thousand and ten and it was  it's on tracks so each each one of these posts has a wheel at the bottom and it runs on a v track all the way down so there's three story moves here so this is our summer move and in other couple weeks since we're so centrally located it's pretty visible and so people see us every day on their way to work or whatever they're doing daily stuff and i think that that the market for c s a's hasn't been hasn't been filled at all and i you know a lot of people are saying i've heard people say that i think that we were we were getting a lot of interest about it from from various people and i think that you know our c s a offer something different then and then other people's and so the r c s is kind of unique instead of like getting your box once a week we just have our form store open every day needs a declining balance so you pay us in the beginning of the season we give you ten percent return on your investment and then we have stuff going into december and we have you know vegetables or yeah so really it's it goes for you know for the whole year but the majority we have things you want in and you haven't the farmers and there were farmers on a lot of that's how we get a lot of our questions answered more specific questions answered we can you know i feel like the farming community here is pretty strong and also pretty open to giving us you know answering questions and giving us time when we when we have a problem or like asking about anything from varieties of things to dealing with past to anything you know even big big questions about is it worth it to be a farmer and i think it's been really valuable to be part of that community and people have been so open and generous to us through no for we have a farm in torpor or in a far mentor program and our mentor is richard was well down in playing field and he's he's been really great he's actually he wrote of like like a small business farming handbook and so we've been lucky to