Yeah, culture is such a big word in farming, agriculture, permaculture, horticulture, tissue culture, everything culture and then people, culture of all kinds, etc., etc.. Yeah.

All right.

Enjoy it.

All right.

Careful.

You're cultivating, cultivating the earth, which is the very ground we walk on.

And you're cultivating the earth to feed people and to feed yourself, to work out your stuff.

You got to get away from it because you got to be talking about getting the word across, or the feeling is bringing people closer to the fact that when we are doing farming, an interesting thing, you build a culture.

It's a pretty long time in my life of different endeavors that had names and farms, but as a foundation, the seeds are at the cor of the mission, meaning growing seed farm, breeding seed being an information and supply for general public and growers of seed.

So it's quite messy at first, and I trust that the wind will separate all the chaff.

But as a foundation, the goal and the mission is to ground in, to establish a resource.

So this used to be 100 years ago.

This is what every farm would do.

They would save a section of their of their crop, the best of their crop, le it go to seed and save that back and not eat it and let it let it mature and go to seed and save that for the following season.

What we do is we grow heirloom seeds, open pollinated seeds, and we established and solidified a seed bank of these locally adapted seeds.

And our purpose with those are for preservation, but also to find the seed that grow in the mountain West.

The seeds that grow in this bio region.

So what happens is that seeds start taking on personality wherever they're grow the same seed, they take on traits.

So in these characteristics and in these traits is this adaptation that occurs and it slowly occurs.

Some say it takes ten rounds or ten generations.

Which ten generation is a long time to pay attention to a seed.

The seed cycle ten times one doesn't develop it in one round of growing seeds.

It has to battle.

Don't get any better than that high pressure farming.

And you get in the car an you got a little jazz roll and.

He always settles me down a little bit.

Because there's so much to do on a farm.

These are young cows.

These are what we cal the juvenile kale and teenagers.

Right.

And they're just coming in to play.

But kale is a biennial plant.

It goes for two years, not one in its second years when it blooms.

So these plants need to make it through a Colorado winter.

This is part of the challenge.

How do we overwinter cabbages to bloom next year when they're going to freeze.

So we're constantly looking at ways we're going to have to transition plants from one year to the next to maintain their health through their dormancy so that they can bloom the second season.

Whoa.

So one of the qualities that we select is for vigor, rate and resilience.

We're trying to go through and propagate or plant seeds to grow all these things.

Like the basil, it will grow throughout the whole season.

And we may not collect seed from every basil or tomato plant, but we're going to try to find the hardy ones that maybe struggled and then did well.

Or we select all of our seed from the qualities that we want.

Again, something like that.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

So when you're bringin in a crop, it's very economical.

You're storing it for the future.

It's like, wow, that is a crap.

You put that away, you're going to protect that.

And when we clean it, we clean it like it's gold, like it's jewels.

There you go, Baba.

Okay.

Yeah.

Just get it in there.

So on this acreage, we gro a few hundred tons of produce.

And we'd like to be bringing.

And we are bringin about half of it, about 100 tons to the food pantry.

So it's a farm to food bank progra that goes along with our mission of our more long term goal is to continue to educate and inspir people to grow seeds like we do.

It's a demonstration farm.

A lot of people don't make the of connecting a seed to their food, and there needs to be that momen sometimes because they love food and they might even love the plants.

But to see where the seed or seeds originate from.

And so what zer footprint has done is, collected funds from the beverag and food industry, from people who are really interested in regenerative farming, and they're taking those funds to farms like ours so that we can do cover crop rotation like we're doing this year, which will restore the land.

You know, our dancing seed is it is an age old tradition, right?

In cultures.

To like red ones and kind of see them in their they'll probably be light and fly away and those will be lower germination.

So even by looks, I can tell generally the percentage of good seed that'll be in the seed lot.

So I would say we're in the 90s.

See that chapter is all about the rigor of year in and year out trials and errors and what can't really see the seed until we go ahead and fan.

It's a stretc for many to understand the depth of the relationship that a farmer and a family, their relationship to the seed that they actually grow, that variety and then save it again.

And it's so exciting because what see what does a good seed give you?

Hope.

Everybody wants hope.

The seed is one very, very big story.

But it's real.

The seed means everything to people.

So what does everything mean?

It's deep rooted social, cultural, spiritual connection.