I created “The Profitable SAE Student Workbook” to help FFA Advisors teach marketing methods to their students and to help FFA Students succeed in their entrepreneurship SAE’s. I hope you find this product as beneficial as all of the interviews I conducted to create it were to me!
Introducing Luke Alpers!
This is one of the most fascinating and inspirational interviews that I have ever done. Luke Alpers might just a be a genius. He is developing an aquaponics system that is capable of feeding a family of four and leaving them with excess food that they can sell. He is also developing a pump that does not need electricity and never shuts off to run the system. He is even being contacted by officials from Myanmar about coming to Asia and showing them how to operate the system. All of this while he is a junior in high school.
Luke has a vision for feeding the world through aquaponics. And, he wants to do it from the Heartland of America. Right there in Kansas. I asked Luke about college. He is really not sure what he is going to do after high school, because he does not know where this project is going to take him. I do not blame him a bit! This is an exciting project and he should follow it where it leads.
I hope you enjoy hearing about it in episode #134!
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Aquaponics
HIGH SCHOOL: Stafford High School; Stafford, Kansas
MASCOT: Trojans
FFA ADVISOR: Mike Cargill (science teacher) & Katie Manbeck
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LUKE ALPERS:
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Luke’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: mcargill@stafford349.com
Stafford High School Telephone Number: 620-234-5248
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Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
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REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA:
“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.”
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