"Having a degree program like this is super important to actually put people in the workforce that are coming in not completely green," said Scott Lafalette, the owner, proprietor and yeast farmer of Blank Slate." It really helps us as an industry to be able to take what we're doing and really go to the next level because we have now a growing stock of people who are qualified, ready and hungry to help us do what we're looking to do. Instead of really trying to recruit people from all over the country, which is great but if we can keep that in town and keep it here locally that's just that much better,"