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SHOW NOTES: Off Farm Income's Website: www.offincome.com INTRODUCING KAITLYN ELLIOT! I am so excited about this interview with Kaitlyn Elliot.  It has everything!  Family Tradition, Complete Vertical Integration (Production, Processing, Value Adding and Marketing), and extremely innovative marketing methods. Kaitlyn Elliot graduated high school in 2015 but is still participating in FFA through her high school chapter while she takes classes at the University of Kentucky.  Kaitlyn's family has been growing sorghum for four generations, and she has partnered with her grandfather to grow and produce products from their land's sorghum. Kaitlyn owns and operates "Poorhouse Sorghum."  She grows her own sorghum, completely chemical free starting in the spring and going through the summer.  Then she harvests her crop and processes the sorghum into syrup.  But she does not stop there.  Then she bottles her syrup and also makes sorghum barbeque sauce. Once she has an inventory of product she starts marketing.  She has a Facebook Page, business cards and a stand at her local farmer's market.  In addition to all of that she takes product and gives presentations and workshops at civic organizations.  These presentations are not just marketing either.  She is educating the public about the uses of sorghum.  She explains that it is kind of a lost food product, and she is doing her part to bring it back. You are going to really enjoy hearing from Kaitlyn! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Growing, Harvesting & Processing Sorghum - Then making value added syrup and barbeque sauce and marketing her products HIGH SCHOOL: Boyle County High School MASCOT: Rebels FFA ADVISOR: Mrs. Toni Myers and Mr. Matthew Whitaker CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KAITLYN ELLIOT: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Boyle County High School website: Kaitlyn's FFA Advisors' Email Addresses: toni.myers@boyle.kyschools.us or matthew.whitaker@boyle.kyschools.us Boyle County High School's Telephone Number: 859.236.5047 Kaitlyn's Facebook Page: Poorhouse Sorghum Kaitlyn's Telephone Number: (859) 481-5678 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