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INTRODUCING WILL CAMPBELL!

I was recently in North Carolina speaking at an SAE camp.  When I polled the advisors that I was speaking to about their students’ entrepreneurship projects a lot of them told me that their students had lawn care businesses.

A lawn care business seems to be very common, and I absolutely love this business.  It is so basic that you start off by mowing somebody else’s lawn for them.  But as you develop you skills you can add on additional services and increase your revenue.  You can scale your equipment and grow your business while creating jobs for other people.  When the business reaches a certain level you can sell it and realized the equity that you have been building.  It is a great model.

Our guest today is from North Carolina and has a lawn mowing business.  Ironically, he and his advisor were not involved in the SAE camp where I spoke.

Will Campbell decided that he wanted an atv.  His folks said that is fine but you will have to figure out how to pay for it.  That is when he started mowing lawn for his neighbors.  With only three customers as clients, Will has been able to save enough and buy his first atv.  Now he is saving for an even bigger one!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Landscape Maintenance

HIGH SCHOOL: Southern Guilford High School, Greensboro, North Carolina

MASCOT: The Storm

FFA ADVISOR: Brad Hensley

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR WILL CAMPBELL:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Southern Guilford High School Ag. Department’s website:

Will’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: hensleb@gcsnc.com

Southern Guilford High School Telephone Number: 336-674-4250

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

Support FFA 

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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