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INTRODUCING KENDRICK KAPPTIE!

There must be something going on at that Worland Wyoming FFA Chapter.  This is the second student that I have interviewed with an outstanding business from there, and they have both involved the creation of clothing.

I first interviewed Vance Curtis who was starting his own t-shirt business.  Today I interview Kendrick Kapptie who has started his own clothing line called “Bloodline Clothing”.  For Kendrick, this all started with his passion for hunting.  That is what he loves to do, and he dreamed about being able to spend his life doing just that.

During Kendrick’s sophomore year he started an outfitting business, taking hunters out waterfowl hunting on public ground.  Today Kendrick is a junior in high school and had leased hunting ground so it is reserved exclusively for his clients.

Kendrick has a lot of dreams of outfitting for big game when he is old enough to get licensed.  For now, he is doing everything he can to be active in hunting including starting his own line of clothing based around his outfitting business.  Kendrick really is grasping marketing.  He knows that he has a built in customer base for his clothing with his hunting clients.  And he knows that the clothing line will start conversations and send new hunting clients his way.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Wildlife Entrepreneurship

HIGH SCHOOL: Worland High School; Worland, Wyoming

MASCOT: Warriors

FFA ADVISOR: Grace Godfrey

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KENDRICK KAPPTIE:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Worland High School Ag. Department’s website:

Kendrick’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: ggodfrey@wsh1.k12.wy.us

Worland High School’s Telephone Number: (307) 347-2412

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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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