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Tilling the Delta dirt
August 22, 2021 We're searching for the Williams family farm, and soon enough Harvey Williams is waving at us on a hot summer day. This traditionally was cotton country; we passed a repair shop for mechanical cotton pickers, though soybeans and corn seem to dominate the landscape in the summer of 2021.
Meet the Arkansas Delta's family-owned distillery creating buzz
July 12, 2021 Delta Dirt Distillery makes vodka from sweet potatoes and corn grown on their family farm just 20 minutes down the road.
Arkansas farming family turns to vodka distillery
May 20, 2021 It’s no secret that it’s been a destructive year to the US and global economy because of COVID-19. But for one Arkansas family, it gave them the perfect opportunity to hunker down and perfect their recipe that would build a new business: Delta Dirt Distillery.
New family distillery hopes to bring sweet sip of success to Helena-West Helena
May 7, 2021 It starts with sweet potatoes grown in the rich Delta dirt on the family farm. Harvey Williams loads them up and uses machines to wash them off and dice them up
Something New is Growing in the Delta Dirt...
April 30, 2021 The Williams family is taking a gamble on the potential of downtown Helena, Arkansas by opening the first black-owned distillery in Arkansas and choosing historic Helena for it's location.
The Secret Ingredient In a Black-Owned Sweet Potato Distillery: Faith.
February 28, 2021 Delta Dirt Distillery’s sweet potato vodka is strong – 86 proof – and it tastes somehow richer than your average vodka, rich like the soil of the Delta that grew the potatoes.