On tomorrow’s Ag Business Episode I am interviewing an entrepreneur with a goat milk soap business.  As you know, the goat milk soap business is one of my favorites to profile.  Well, tomorrow’s guest discloses that her family got goats first, and then her pragmatic husband said that these goats need to pull their own weight if they are going to stay.  And that is what led to their goat milk soap business.

This reminded me of the interview I did with Sydney Gordon way back in 2016.  She loved goats and talked her father into getting some for their farm.  However, he said the same thing – “these goats need to pay for themselves”.  And that is what led her goat milk soap business.  I thought this tied in perfectly with tomorrow’s show, and I am happy to bring it back for you today.

The original show notes are below:

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Sydney Gordon! 

Sydney Gordon loves goats.  She has a business that I have always been very interested in – goat milk soap.  This project came out of necessity.  Her dad told her that if she was going to keep goats, she had better figure out how to make money with them.  She started researching, and that led her to this idea.

A friend of the family actually taught classes on how to make goat milk soap.  She signed up promptly.  And now here she is, creating and selling goat milk soap towards a younger target market.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Goat Milk Soap

HIGH SCHOOL: Saline High School; Saline, Michigan

MASCOT: Hornets

FFA ADVISOR: David Mellor

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR SYDNEY GORDON:

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

Sydney’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: mellord@salineschools.org

Saline High School Telephone Number:  734-401-4222

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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