OFI 1190: Replay: How To Make And Sell Board Art | FFA SAE Edition | Lindsea Cole With Drew Brekke | Westwood Community School FFA

On Today’s show, I replay fun and entertaining interview on how two FFA members teamed up to craft a unique FFA SAE. It is not just about the finished art products, it is also about unique marketing and forming a partnership using specific skillsets with a common interest in woodwork and art. More about how this idea for a “board art” SAE came about coming up in today’s show. (Replay of Episode #316)

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Lindsea Cole and Drew Brekke!

My guests today have teamed up for their supervised agricultural experience. This came naturally to them since they were already dating!

Lindsea Cole and Drew Brekke are combining their skills to create “board art”. They are coming up with creative ideas and then producing them into artwork in the woodshop. I loved the idea, but I loved the marketing even more.

Lindsea and Drew have their own Facebook page as well as business cards to promote their business. I love the attention to the marketing piece of this business.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Creative Board Art

HIGH SCHOOL: Westwood High School; Sloan, Iowa

MASCOT: Rebels

FFA ADVISOR: Dan Witten

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LINDSEA AND DREW:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Westwood High School Website:

Lindsea and Drew’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: dwitten@wcsdrebels.com

Westwood High School Telephone Number: 712-428-3355

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 ensure 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