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OFI 134: FFA Feeding The World Through Aquaponics | FFA SAE Edition | Luke Alpers | Stafford High School | FFA

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Luke Alpers! 

This is one of the most fascinating and inspirational interviews that I have ever done.  Luke Alpers might just a be a genius.  He is developing an aquaponics system that is capable of feeding a family of four and leaving them with excess food that they can sell.  He is also developing a pump that does not need electricity and never shuts off to run the system.  He is even being contacted by officials from Myanmar about coming to Asia and showing them how to operate the system.  All of this while he is a junior in high school.

Luke has a vision for feeding the world through aquaponics.  And, he wants to do it from the Heartland of America.  Right there in Kansas.  I asked Luke about college.  He is really not sure what he is going to do after high school, because he does not know where this project is going to take him.  I do not blame him a bit!  This is an exciting project and he should follow it where it leads.

I hope you enjoy hearing about it in episode #134!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Aquaponics

HIGH SCHOOL: Stafford High School; Stafford, Kansas

MASCOT: Trojans

FFA ADVISOR: Mike Cargill (science teacher) & Katie Manbeck

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LUKE ALPERS:

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

Luke’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: mcargill@stafford349.com

Stafford High School Telephone Number: 620-234-5248

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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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