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Home > The Off Farm Income Podcast > OFI 727: Getting A Greenhouse For Your 14th Birthday | FFA SAE Edition | Lexie Miller | Muhlenberg County High School FFA


	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 727: Getting A Greenhouse For Your 14th Birthday \| FFA SAE Edition \| Lexie Miller \| Muhlenberg County High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:25:38
	Publish Date:		2019-12-04 01:30:05
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING LEXIE MILLER! I get to hear a lot of interesting stories on this show. I frequently hear about students being gifted cattle or sheep when they are 5 years old and things of that nature. In today’s episode we are profiling a young lady who was so enamored with growing flowers that her whole family had it on their mind. Then one day, while driving through Kentucky, her older brother found a broken down green house sitting in a field. He pulled off, asked the property owners if he could purchase it, and then brought it home to his sister, Lexie Miller, for her fourteenth birthday. Three years later Lexie is the owner of LouLou’s Mum’s and More. She has competed in a Kentucky “Shark Tank” contest and won a large grant which she is using to purchase a larger green house and update the one she has been using since she as 14. She has also received a $1,000 FFA grant to help her accomplish this and grow her business. Lexie now wells flowers and vegetables, and the demand for her products exceeds what she can supply. She is looking forward to running and growing this business. And, she has already proven that she has the ability to find creative funding sources. She is off to a great start! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Flower & Vegetable Sales *HIGH SCHOOL:* Muhlenberg County High School; Greenville, Kentucky *MASCOT:* Mustangs *FFA ADVISOR:* Jay McElwain CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LEXIE MILLER: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Muhlenerg County High School Ag. Department’s website: Lexie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jay.mcelwain@muhlenberg.kyschools.us Muhlenberg County High School’s Telephone Number: (270) 338 – 0040 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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