OFI 2034: How To Sell 8 Cupcakes Per Minute | FFA SAE Edition | Izzy Mikkelsen | Gettysburg High School FFA

Izzy Mikkelsen is the owner of Turbo’s Treats Bakery in Gettysburg, South Dakota. She is also a 9th Grader and in just her first year of the FFA.

During the lockdowns during Covid, Izzy’s mom encouraged her to start baking to pass the time. Something about that was a natural fit for Izzy, and she really took to it. About a year and a half later she had progressed to the point that she started selling the baked goods that she makes, and she hasn’t looked back. Today, primarily through word of mouth, she bakes for events and does specialized cakes for people like the one you see on the post here today.

The pinnacle so far has to be the 100 year anniversary of the founding of Gettysburg when she had a booth selling cupcakes. She baked 1,000 cupcakes for the event, and she sold them all. In 2 hours! That is 500 cupcakes per hour. Or, put another way, she sold more than 8 cupcakes per minute!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Bakery Business

HIGH SCHOOL: Gettysburg High School; Gettysburg, South Dakota

MASCOT: Knights

FFA ADVISOR: Sarah McClure

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR IZZY MIKKELSEN:

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

Izzy’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: sarah.mcclure@k12.sd.us

Gettysburg High School’s Telephone Number: 605 765 2436

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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.”

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