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OFI 226: What Kind Of Paper Decomposes Fastest? | FFA SAE Edition | Katelyn Struiksma | Ripon Christian High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

If You Want To Compost Paper, You Will Have To Turn It!

Introducing Katelyn Struiksma! 

Today’s episode is a little different.  This student has not turned her supervised agricultural experience into a business, and it does not sound like she will.  However, what she had to tell me definitely inspired business ideas in my mind, and I’m sure that it will in yours.

Katelyn Struiksma is creating compost from paper products in her back yard.  Now, she is doing this as an experiment to see which paper products will decompose the fastest.  But, what if you took what you learned from her and started developing compost for sale from recycled paper.  Man, would you have a niche when marketing this compost to your customers!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Decomposing Paper Compost

HIGH SCHOOL: Ripon Christian High School; Ripon, California

MASCOT: Knights

FFA ADVISOR: Ms. Allison Hoover

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KATELYN: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Ripon Christian High School website: 

Katelyn’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: AHoover@rcschools.com

Ripon Christian High School’s Telephone Number: 209-599-2155

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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Donate to FFA – One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000.  In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants.  With your donations, more students can get this head start – pay it forward.

REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA:

• Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world.  FFA is providing the needed education, training and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and insure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food.
• Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation.  The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth.
• Farmers, ranchers and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store:

“Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive.”

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack 

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