I created “The Profitable SAE Student Workbook” to help FFA Advisors teach marketing methods to their students and to help FFA Students succeed in their entrepreneurship SAE’s. I hope you find this product as beneficial as all of the interviews I conducted to create it were to me!

OFI 110: Start A Landscaping Business….in 8th Grade | FFA SAE Edition | Charles McDaniel | South Hunterdon Regional High School

SHOW NOTES:

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INTRODUCING CHARLES MCDANIEL!

Charles is the second student from South Hunterdon Regional High School to come on the show.  He has a great story, starting a landscaping business when he was in 8th grade, growing it so big that his parents made him form an LLC, buying out his partner when was 15 and having to hire employees to drive him around because he did not have a license yet.

Charles is very well spoken ad adept in business.  I think you will really enjoy this interview with him.  He offer lots of great tips and advice on how to make a landscaping business work as well as some of the headaches that come with it.

I did not get any book recommendations from Charles in this episode, but I did my own research and have a couple recommendations for you here:

The Professional Landscaper’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Own Landscaping or Lawn Care Business

How To Get Commercial Lawn Care And Snow Plow Customers.

Both of these books have five star reviews on Amazon, are affordable and can give you that inside information you need to get your own landscaping business started.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Started His Own Landscaping Business – McDaniel Landscaping, LLC

HIGH SCHOOL: South Hunterdon Regional High School

MASCOT: Eagles

FFA ADVISOR: Mrs. Tiffany Morey

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CHARLES MCDANIEL:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the South Hunterdon Regional High School website:

Charles’ Telephone Number: (908) 566-6906

Charles’ Facebook Page: McDaniel Landscaping LLC

Charles’ FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: tiffany.morey@shrsd.org

South Hunterdon Regional High School’s Telephone Number: 609.397.0183

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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