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Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter! Email address: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING MEGAN LAMB!  One of best parts of interviewing FFA students is learning about their family traditions and legacies, and then seeing how these students do not take those for granted and continue to honor them.  In today's episode we get to do that again. Megan Lamb grew up on a gladiola flower farm.  This was a tradition started by her family four generations ago.  Today she and her family grow over 10,000 gladiolas and sell them at farmer's markets.  Megan is in the process of expanding their business, "The Country Lamb", to include decorating weddings and other special events. What Megan has been able to do by embracing this family tradition has led to multiple accolades.  In 2017 Megan became a national proficiency finalist for the first time in agriscience research.  In 2018 she did it again in agribusiness.  And, in 2019 she did it, yet again, in specialty crop production! Megan is now attending Cornell University and studying agricultural science.  She is well on her way to preserving a great, family legacy. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Flower Production HIGH SCHOOL: Stockbridge Valley High School; Munnsville, New York MASCOT: Cougar FFA ADVISOR: Erin Smith CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MEGAN LAMB: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Stockbridge Valley High School Website: Megan's FFA Advisor's Email Address: esmith@stockbridgevalley.org  Stockbridge Valley High School Telephone Number: 315-495-4400 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