Emily Thimmes was a guest on the Off-Farm Income Podcast back in 2016.  Being a student at Miami East High School, under the tutilage of Marie Carity, she was encouraged to pursue an interesting entrepeneurship SAE, and she did!  Emily was making quite a name for herself growing and selling herbs when I interviewed her.

On tomorrow’s Ag Business Episode, I am profiling a married couple that comes from production agriculture and has now created a niche growing and selling garlic on a small episode.  From one herb to another, I thought this was a great tie in to tomorrow’s show.

Emily’s original show notes are below:

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Emily Thimmes! 

By far, I have interviewed more students from Miami East High School than any other school in the nation.  Marie Carity, Miami East’s FFA Adivsor, has been able to come up with many extremely interesting supervised agricultural experiences.

Today’s guest is no exception.  Emily Thimmes is a $1,000 SAE grant recipient, she will be serving as the chapter chaplain in the 2016-2017 school year and she is growing and selling herbs.

I hope you enjoy getting to know Emily!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Growing and Selling Herbs

HIGH SCHOOL: Miami East High School, Casstown, Ohio

MASCOT: Vikings

FFA ADVISOR: Marie Carity

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EMILY THIMMES:

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

Emily’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: memcarity@mdeca.org

Miami East High School Telephone Number: (937) 335-7070

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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