He just loves being rubbed behind that ear.

We have kids and kids and adults come from all over to see O Eric Eric the wonder Pig.

My daughter saved him when he was just a little baby piglet.

He literally would fit in the palm of your hand.

My name is Alan Mahan.

I own and operate Rabbit Ridge farms with my wife Angela.

We do things kind of like our grandparents did.

We're regenerative farmers so we raised beef, hogs and chickens all on pasture.

Hog pens aren't supposed to be beautiful man, you just look around here and you can see the the fresh grass where we've created the silver pasture.

We put animals out here that can thrive in this environment without eliminating the environment.

If you come to the farm, you're going to see wide open pastures.

You're going to see animals behaving the way animals are supposed to behave in their natural environment.

All of our animals.

What makes them so unique, is the fact they're eating so many different species of plants, and all of those micronutrients are coming back in the meat that you eat from our farm.

On the farm we have, we have to wear a lot of different hats.

There are days that I think why can I not get what I need to get done, done?

And it's because the list of what I need to get done is quite long.

The shipping and when we we ship our product across the country, booking events stocking the kitchen, making sure the animals are fed, the pastures are rotated.

We have lodging at the farm we do farm tours.

We do farm schools the majority of social media is actually.

Allen he says he's like a 14 year old girl every morning.

He gets so excited.

Can I show you my video and we'll put it up on the screen like it's you know, a big premiere Rabbit Ridge farms, cheesy chicken, rice, and broccoli casserole.

The cheesy chicken and rice broccoli in the oven.

I thought you were taking a picture.

No, I'm talking.

I'm doing a cooking video.

It just is not quite like your cooking video.

Rapper Ridge Farms is unique because it is actually a farm you can visit.

That's not the norm with most farms.

I grew up on a row crop farm where if you saw someone on the property you were making your way over there, finding out why and making sure they were quickly escorted off.

It really went against everything that we knew.

Oh, we're going to bring people to the farm.

Other farmers say what we believe in complete transparency.

We want to make sure our customers and our our patrons know how we raise our animals, so we welcome them to come to the farm we bring.

Literally thousands of people every year we're able to teach children, adults, whoever where their food comes from.

I'm proud to be a 6th generation farmer, and with Angela, we're able to continue traditions and farming methods that I feel like hold true to what the generations in front of me held valuable to them.

I'm going to talk just a little bit about Angela.

It's awesome to still be in love at 54.

Angela is the consummate partner.

She's the one that.

Pass my leg when she sees me getting worked up.

Angela was the wife of my best friend.

So.

You know, if you're watching the video on this, you know there's probably.

The scratch of the needle.

So I started dating Drew Blankenship when I was in.

Just recently graduated from college and he introduced me to his best friends who were Alan Mahan and his wife.

His first wife, Drew was that guy that became a best friend the first time he met him.

We both liked to hunt fish and so you know there were times we were croppie fishing in the spring that we should have been in class or we.

Went all over the country hunting fishing.

Eight days before Drew died, Alan was at our house hunting.

We went on.

That was his last hunt and he was ill and we knew he was ill, but we did not know how gravely ill he was.

So six days later, Alan came back to the hospital with me and was with me when he died.

And spoke at his funeral.

And I know when I say that people, I can see their mind racing because who's wouldn't that sounds?

You know, as my kids said back in the day, that's weird.

And we were just very, very close friends, made very close family friends.

And Fast forward through life, which left me as a widow and he was divorced.

And life happens, and we found ourselves fallen in love.

The only person that could comfort me with Angela.

To find somebody to love and you know, to rise back out of the ashes you know, you know she made me feel like a phoenix.

I don't know what life would be like if if I wasn't with Alan I wasn't married to Alan because he can tell stories that I don't even know to our boys about their dad.

I got to fulfill something that I promised my best friend and I told him that I would see after his family.

And I would make sure that his voice was raised.

Our motto is creating community through Food and Agriculture.

We have dinners and breakfast.

We bring local entertainment.

And it's a really unique experience to come to one of our events.

The fact that we are able to come together as a group on a random Friday night and provide an experience an unforgettable experience for folks that don't, don't get to have that on on a regular basis.

That is very important to us.

We serve the food that we grow here on this farm, through our restaurant and our venue.

Our wait staff, our kitchen staff our cleaning staff falls into just a few categories, friends and family.

Every one of them Alan is the floor man.

I guarantee he has stopped at every table.

He is checked to make sure that you're having a good time finding out where you're from learning something.

We want to make sure that everybody feels 100% welcome no matter what walk of life they come from.

Our country is so diverse I would never want anybody to ever feel like they were left out on my farm.

That table is yours all night.

There's no table turnover.

We don't have another group coming in in an hour.

We want you to come and stay all night.

Like Willie says, stay all night, stay a little longer, dance all night, dance a little longer.

Food is a is a means of of sharing of giving of loving.

We care about our animals.

We care about the earth, we care about human interaction.

We care about community through Food and Agriculture.

It all comes back to that and I hope when you walk away, you know that you are part of that community.

There are people not just in Arkansas, but all across the country that are enjoying a little bit of rabbit Ridge.

In their thousands of miles away, I'll tell you that that gets up in my feels what you have worked so hard to grow.

Is going to so many people that are going to enjoy it.

That's pretty cool.

It's pretty cool.

It's time to feed the animals.