Turkeyfoot Valley FFA receives national grant
The Turkeyfoot Valley Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter in Confluence has been awarded a $2000 grant from the National FFA Organization’s Living to Serve: Environmental Grant program.
The chapter has developed a year-long service-learning project to meet local environmental needs.
The Living to Serve: Environmental Grants are provided through funding from corporate sponsors CSX and the Donaldson Foundation as a special project of the National FFA Foundation. The Turkeyfoot Valley FFA project includes plans to incorporate community service hours from our FFA members to grow plants in our greenhouse and utilize our aquaponics capacity to show how the Nitrogen Cycle works in a watershed.
Turkeyfoot Valley FFA has recently teamed up with the Penn State Master Gardeners to make a workshop at the high school available to the public on composting and aquaponics.
The project illustrates the final line of the FFA motto, which is Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve, by encouraging FFA members to unite in service within their communities.
The Living to Serve: Environmental Grants take community service one step further to service-learning, which provides a meaningful way to apply leadership and education skills learned in school and FFA.