Growing Knowledge Podcast

Howdy, y'all! In this episode of the podcast, I had the great opportunity to interview a good friend and mentor of mine, Ms. Lauren Roberts. Lauren is a former Trenton FFA member and is currently serving Florida FFA as their Area 2 State Vice President. We discussed her start in FFA, her research and speeches about honey bees and her year of service for Florida FFA. Give it a listen I know yall will enjoy it as much as I did making it!!

Howdy yall! In this episode of the GK podcast, I had the honor of interviewing Mr. Ian Bennett. Ian is a former National FFA Vice President, Georgia FFA State Officer, and currently an Ag Communications Student at the University of Georgia. In this episode, we talked about his experience as both a national and state officer, FFA's impact on him and his future and finally his plans for his future involvement in the Agriculture Industry. I hope you guys enjoy it!!

In this episode of the podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mr. Kyle Mendes. Kyle currently works at the University of Florida in the Animal Science department and is the coach of the UF Meat Judging Team. In this episode, we talk about Kyle's life long involvement in agriculture, his FFA experience, his passion for the swine industry and his involvement in collegiate meat judging. Hope yall enjoy it!

I had the great opportunity to attend the 2019 Florida FFA Hall of Fame Dinner at the Leadership Traning Center. At the dinner, we honored the lives of the inductees and their lifelong support of the FFA and Agriculture. This dinner made me think and reflect so I decided to pull out the old microphone and record. I hope you guys like this solo episode of the podcast and let me know if you want more like these!

Hey y'all! On this episode I had the amazing opportunity to talk with Mr. Clayton Willis. In the episode we talked about Clayton's beginnings in agriculture, his year of service as Florida FFA State President, his time at the University of Florida, and his current career at Farm Credit of Florida. I hope y'all enjoy and sorry if his audio is quite, me and my editor tried our best to fix it for y'all!

On this episode i was able to sit down with a former and current Agriculture teachers and learn more about their story and journey to being agriculture educators. Mr Brian Lee was an Agriculture teacher for 18 years and worked at Lecanto and Chipley High School as an AG teacher and FFA adviser. Mr Thomas Sturgis is currently teaching and advising at Durant High School in Plant City and has been apart of agriculture education for 28 years. Hope you guys enjoy this episode! 

Hey y'all, on this episode of the podcast i was fortunate enough to have Mr. Matt Griffin be on and talk about his life around agriculture. We talk about his time in FFA at South Lake High School, his involvement in the Young Farmers and Ranchers program and even about his side hobby of being a living historian and performer in historical reenactments. I had a blast making this episode and I hope you guys enjoy it. 

Howdy! Thank y'all for listening to the welcome episode and i hope you are looking forward to more episodes!