Hey guys, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. My name is Jessica Sowers. I am your host.

My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. And here on our podcast, we talk about all things,

food, growing, gardening, raising animals, just the general homestead life, raising a family in a simpler

way, as well as some other topics that we sometimes stumble upon. Today I have a guest on the podcast.

I have Mr. Will Kunkel here with me today. Those of you who are familiar with our YouTube channel have seen Will

there, if you've been watching anytime, I guess, in the last almost year now. We've been with us

almost a year. March 2nd, I think. Yeah, so we're coming up on. My dad's birthday, yeah. Coming up on a year.

We met Will when we were first getting ready to relocate to South Carolina.

We found our property here.

And we were, of course, in Arkansas and trying to make headway on developing a very raw 27 acres in South Carolina, about 720 miles away from where we were.

And the first thing we had to do was get our septic system in. And we were going through the process of getting it permitted

and kind of running into some questions. We didn't know how to answer. It was sort of an upheaval

of a time for us. My dad was going through

being diagnosed with cancer and all the stuff and we were kind of freaking out, honestly. And one night,

we were sitting around the table. Our kids were like, have you even prayed about it? Because we were so

stressed out. And so we were like, fine. We'll pray now, you know, just okay. And I kid you not, that was the beginning of

dinner. When we were done with dinner, I picked up my phone and I have this message from this guy in

South Carolina that's like, hey, I permit septic tanks. If you need any help or have any questions,

let me know. And I was like, you cannot make this stuff up so jermaya called him that was will and

he ended up being a big help to us through that process but we found out that we had stumbled upon

a person very passionate about growing and um ended up hiring him to come work here at our farm the following spring, which has been a year ago now.

So Will, is there anything you would like to tell about yourself kind of in introduction?

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