OFI 1328: Replay OFI 695: How To Develop Complimentary Businesses | FFA SAE Edition | Hadden Powell | Bleckley County High School FFA

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In today’s episode, I replay an interview I did with an extraordinary FFA student who started his own business and then went on to start another. Learn about Hadden Powell and his floral and landscape design business.

Original Show Notes:

INTRODUCING HADDEN POWELL!

As you have heard me say many times, I really like it when things are efficient, they compliment each other and you see win/win situations. In the case of today’s guest and national star nominee in agribusiness, he has developed just such a business.

Hadden Powell started Powells And Company doing floral designs. But this isn’t the beginning of the story. He first started out with his landscape design business. As that business developed he realized that he had flowers growing that he should repurpose. So, he started Powells and Company.

Today Hadden is operating both companies, and they compliment each other very well. This has inspired his future career, and he is currently studying landscape architecture at the University Of Georgia to enhance his expertise in this business even more.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Agribusiness

HIGH SCHOOL: Bleckley County High School; Cochran, Georgia

MASCOT: Royals

FFA ADVISOR: Doyle Floyd

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HADDEN POWELL:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Bleckley County High School website:

Hadden’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: wparks@bleckley.k12.ga.us

Bleckley County High School’s Telephone Number: (478) 934-2821

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:

“The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue