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Home > The Off Farm Income Podcast > OFI 494: Ellie’s Soaps & Such (Goat Soap And Lotion Business) | FFA SAE Edition | Ellie Paulsrud | Blue Ridge High School FFA


	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 494: Ellie’s Soaps & Such (Goat Soap And Lotion Business) \| FFA SAE Edition \| Ellie Paulsrud \| Blue Ridge High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2018-08-29 01:30:24
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING ELLIE PAULSRUD! Value adding is such a great way to increase your potential for supporting yourself on your own farm. In the case of milking goats it also allows you to keep your livestock for long periods of time and really get to know them. We have shown this on the non-student side in a couple interviews with PJ Jonas of Goat Milk Stuff. Today we get to demonstrate this with a very enterprising student from Illinois, Ellie Paulsrud. Ellie has created her own business, Ellie’s Soaps & Such. She creates soaps and lotions from the milk she receives from her Nigerian Dwarf goats. She markets her products at craft shows, stores in Farmer City, Illinois, on Facebook, on Instagram and soon to be on her own website. This business adds values to her goats and of course her goat milk. It also gives her the ability to market goat kids that will not be milked by her for another revenue source. This has led her to become a leader in her FFA chapter as well as her region. Ellie is now serving as her chapter’s reporter as well as her section’s president. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Goat Production *HIGH SCHOOL:* Blue Ridge High School; Farmer City, Illinois *MASCOT:* Knights *FFA ADVISOR:* Jacalyn Meisner CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ELLIE PAULSRUD: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Blue Ridge High School Ag. Department’s website: Ellie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jmeisner@blueridge18.org Blue Ridge High School’s Telephone Number: 309-928-9141 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 Where You Can Listen To Us: LISTEN TO US ON SATELLITE RADIO! WE ARE CONTRIBUTORS TO “FFA TODAY” ON RURAL RADIO SIRIUS XM CHANNEL 147! “FFA Today” airs on Rural Radio Sirius XM Channel 147 Saturdays at 7:30 AM Eastern and Sundays at 6:30 PM Eastern. Please let RURAL RADIO know that you like hearing us on their channel! Here is how to contact them and leave feedback: Email: zacht@rfdtv.com Website: RuralRadio147.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RURALRADIO147
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