OFI 1896: Entrepreneurship As A Lifestyle Choice | FFA SAE Edition | Nash McKenzie | Boonslick Technical Center FFA

Nash McKenzie is a 2023 National Proficiency Winner in the category of Diversified Horticulture. This all started with shooting sporting clays if you can believe that. Nash did not grow up farming or with an agricultural background, but he did grow up participating in shooting clay competitions through the 4H. As he got to high school he discovered that he could continue this through the FFA, and he joined.

While Nash was able to continue shooting clays, he had other responsibilities in the FFA, including developing an SAE. During his 9th Grade year he had started to mow a few lawns in an effort towards satisfying this requirement. And when Covid shut everything else down the following year, he had the time and the inclination to really dive in to the business. That is when “Home Exterior Services” was born and it took off.

Today, Nash is just getting ready to wrap up his Associate’s Degree in business. He has expanded her services in the business from just lawns to all forms of landscaping, pressure washing and for the second year – Christmas Light hanging.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Lawn Care And Landscaping

HIGH SCHOOL: Boonslick Technical Education Center; Booneville, Missouri

MASCOT: Pirates

FFA ADVISOR: Deanna Schunck

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NASH MCKENZIE:

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Nash’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: dschnuck@bpsk12.net

Boonslick Technical Education Center’s Telephone Number: 660-882-5306

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