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 244: Creating An Edible Landscape | FFA SAE Edition | Rachel Stanley | Jon Overton High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

If You Want To Create An Edible Landscape, You Will Need Gardening Equipment!

Introducing Rachel Stanley! 

Rachel Stanley has a very interesting idea.  She has turned her backyard in Nashville, Tennessee into an “edible landscape.”  Instead of traditional grass and curbing, she has an “herb spiral”, squash, sunflowers and many other vegetables.  She has beautified her backyard in a very productive way.  She is producing food for both her family and her neighbors while farming in the city.

What a great idea!  I could not help but think of the Wizard Of Oz as we talked about this.  I really enjoyed this idea.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Creating An Edible Landscape

HIGH SCHOOL: Jon Overton High School; Nashville, Tennessee

MASCOT: Bobcats

FFA ADVISOR: Joy Groves

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR RACHEL STANLEY:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Jon Overton School Website:

Rachel’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address:  Joy.Groves@mnps.org

Jon Overton High School Telephone Number:  615-333-5135

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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