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Home > The Off Farm Income Podcast > OFI 675: Starting Your Own Bakery In High School | FFA SAE Edition | Alea Ogle | Streator Township High School FFA


	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 675: Starting Your Own Bakery In High School \| FFA SAE Edition \| Alea Ogle \| Streator Township High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:42:39
	Publish Date:		2019-09-04 01:30:07
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING ALEA OGLE! I would say that about 5% of the students that I have interviewed are home schooled. Families make the decision to teach their students at home for a variety of reasons, and it is always refreshing to me to find out that they are still participating in the FFA. Today’s guest, Alea Ogle, just seemed to respond better to learning at home. So when she was in first grade her parents started home schooling her while her sister continued going to public school. This has turned out to be a very wise decision as Alea is achieving unbelievable things already. Alea now goes to public school for one thing and one thing only – FFA. She loves to bake and started a baking business in her families kitchen several years ago. During this time period her parents purchased a commercial building in the downtown sector of her hometown because they wanted to help revitalize the downtown. However, they did not have a plan of what to do with the building. Alea jokingly suggested that they allow her to start her own bakery in the building, and they said “yes”. This started the process of acquiring equipment and preparing the business. After a lot of hard work they launched Blue Eyed Rascal Bakery this summer, and they completely sold out of inventory on day one. Now Alea gets up around 2am every day so she can start working at the bakery at 4am. She is learning a ton about business and has carved out her own niche so that she and other bakeries in town can co-exist. This is a great story about a motivated and talented entrepreneur. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Operating Her Own Bakery *HIGH SCHOOL:* Streator Township High School; Streator Township, Illinois *MASCOT:* Bulldogs *FFA ADVISOR:* Riley Hintzsche CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ALEA OGLE: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Streator Township School Ag. Department’s website: Alea’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: rhintzsche@streatorhs.org Streator Township High School Telephone Number: 815-672-0545 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: “The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard: Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters
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