SHOW NOTES:

INTRODUCING KATE SCHOENBERG AND SAMANTHA LEBLANC!

These two young ladies have partnered to come up with a very impressive business plan.  They are starting an aquaponics business called “Wolf Creek Greenhouse and Fishery.”

The level of research and preparation these two have put into this business is very impressive.  They have researched everything, from what is most profitable to grow and raise in their aquaponics system all the way to the closest location their fish supplier delivers to, so they can cut down on their overhead costs.

They will be raising trout and herbs in their system. Then they will tap into an already established horse boarding businesses’ customer list to sell their products.

I absolutely loved their enthusiasm and professionalism.  You will too!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Aquaponics Business

HIGH SCHOOL: Springhill High School; Springhill, Kansas

MASCOT: Broncos

FFA ADVISOR: Alicia Hampton

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KATE SCHOENBERG & SAMANTHA LEBLANC:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Springhill High School website:

Kate and Samantha’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: hamptona@usd230.org

Springhill High School’s Telephone Number: (913) 592-7299

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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