I created “The Profitable SAE Student Workbook” to help FFA Advisors teach marketing methods to their students and to help FFA Students succeed in their entrepreneurship SAE’s. I hope you find this product as beneficial as all of the interviews I conducted to create it were to me!

OFI 181: Gardening Is A Passion! | FFA SAE Edition | Ashley King | Boonslick Technical Center FFA

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Introducing Ashley King! 

Ashley is an exceptional gardner!  In her first year competing in her county fair she won numerous awards for individual vegetables as well as her horticultural display.

Ashley has a garden at both her mother and father’s home in Missouri.  In addition, she is homeschooled and takes online high school courses but finds a way to participate in agriculture and the FFA through the Boonslick Technical Center in Booneville, Missouri.

You can hear the smile on her face while we are doing the interview, and I think you are going to really enjoy getting to know Ashley.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Operating multiple gardens, showing vegetables at the fair and selling produce

HIGH SCHOOL: Boonslick Technical Education Center

MASCOT: Pirates

FFA ADVISOR: Deanna Thies

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ASHLEY KING:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Boonslick Technical Education Website:

Ashley’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: dthies@boonville.k12.mo.us

Boonslick Technical Education Center’s Telephone Number: 660-882-5306

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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