Direct-to-Consumer Sales Model

retail operation so right you run it through your patreon and people can donate as little or as much as they want to yeah so basically what we found is that if we said hey 250 000 people can come and order beef whenever they want we'd be sold out oh yeah right so patreon allows us to almost like a gatekeeping it's like it's like Sam's Club or Costco or anything like that you pay a dollar per month to be a patreon member which is really nothing yeah yeah and then you can come and order beef and pork from us you get a password you can go in order you can order as much as you want but it helps us just to control inventory more than anything because you can't keep up no we couldn't we're having that trouble now I mean we have uh we're out of stakes yeah people bought us out of stakes time consuming hard to keep up that's some of the challenge I'm running into on my farm is like how do I provide beef tea I've got 35 cows you know how do I provide beef you guys are beefing five cows every two months yep so that's a that's a lot of beef yeah man but upstairs Grand scale that's tiny bit tiny I mean it's a small operation I mean it's a very small business but that's one of the great things is that people are willing to support small businesses and you know supporting your local farmer is huge that's it that's super admirable uh supporting local farms even if it's not local to you right it can be local so the Miracles in the internet right yeah right no no doubt it's everywhere this is Jenny we have Jenny and Forest they are part of our useless animal collection and they hang out at the ranch they just uh take it easy they bring folks in to to talk about where