Belding FFA

FFA students are taking corsage orders for homecoming! They make pin, wrist or ring corsages. Order through the link. Contact Christina DeGraaf with any questions. https://forms.gle/hF6bqTBrHomtPS8JA

Belding Labor Day Tractor Show winners-
Most Original:
1938 Centaur
Driven by Finn Jonas
Original to the family - Finn's great grandfather initially sold it but then bought it back, and it has been in the family since.

Most Unique:
2015 RanchKing Lawn mower
Driven by Wesley Endres
Wesley rebuilt this 3 years ago while still in middle school and converted it into a garden pulling tractor. Wesley did all the work himself including welding weight brackets and wheely bars and adding another smoke stack.

Judge's Choice:
1953 Case
Driven by Rollie Hostetler
Rollie is the VP of Clarksville Tractor Club.

Community Choice:
1964 Oliver 1650 Diesel
Driven by Andrea Doty-Lawson
This tractor has been in the family since it was new, and Andrea finished restoring it this past year in her father's memory.

Such a wonderful turnout today! I very much enjoyed talking to the different people that came down. I'm only sorry that I didn't catch everyone!

Thank you to all the people who shared their tractors with us and those that came out in support of them. It was a great day! I'll have pictures posted later tonight.

Come see us at the Tractor Show today! We would love to chat with you. The Gathering Place North Lawn. 1-3pm.

We would love to see all the tractors out there!

Tractor Show & Tell | belding-labor-day Tractor showcase, antique tractors, show and tell, free entry

Good luck to Kaitlynn tomorrow morning as she goes for showmanship sweepstakes! She qualified because of winning overall showmanship for rabbits. Tomorrow she will be showing all the different animals!

Kaitlynn is showing a rabbit on behalf of Belding FFA at the Kent County Youth Fair. It will be up for auction on Friday, August 2nd at 5pm for anyone who is interested in supporting Kaitlynn and Belding FFA. We thank you for all you do!
https://www.kcyf.org/auctions

Congrats to Riley for earning his Ecology Conservation and Management certification!

**Update: We are sold out! Thank you to everyone for their support.**

We have a few hanging baskets left! On sale for $10 each. We will be at the bus garage entrance Thursday about 7:30am until 8:40am and again at 10:15am until 11:15am!

After pre-orders so far, we have a limited amount left, so come early tomorrow to ensure availability!
19 Red Geranium Baskets
26 Black Knight Baskets
AND (I totally forgot)
10 Black Petunia Baskets!

One for $20 or two for $30

You still have time to pre-order today! Message us here or email Christina DeGraaf at [email protected]

We will be available from 7:30-2:30 tomorrow at the greenhouse! Enter by bus garage entrance and drive straight back. You can't miss us!

We will update with availability for Friday at the end of the day tomorrow.

Our students have worked hard in putting together and caring for these hanging baskets! We will be selling them out of the greenhouse at the HS on Thursday and Friday, May 9-10. Enter through the bus garage drive.
If you have any questions or would like to pre-order, contact Christina DeGraaf at [email protected]

We have 2 different options:
The Black Knight basket with orange Calibrachoa and black Petunias

Red geranium basket

Special thank you to Two Seasons for their support with this sale!

It was Drive Your Tractor to School Day. Another awesome year!

Drive your tractor to school day is back again this year!
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Friday, April 26th. Sign up with Ms. DeGraaf. Meeting at lunch tomorrow (Tuesday) in Mrs. Newell's classroom for those interested.

Shout out to these students for competing in a skills contest at MSU. This year we had a forestry team, floriculture team, vet science team, ag mechanics team, and someone compete in ag business. These are all life long skills they can use in their bright futures.

Two Seasons has been such a large supporter of our FFA program. Glad we were able to take some students to give back. Thank you for all you've done for us!

As Prom is just around the corner, we are now starting our corsage orders! All orders and money are due April 16. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

Here is the link to place an order:

Order Request All requests will be filled as closely as possible due to supplies available. Email [email protected] with any questions. Please have payment made by April 16, 2024. Checks may be made out to Belding FFA.

Great opportunity!

O•P•E•N interviews THIS coming Wednesday, 8a-10a. Looking for 18+ to be able to work longer shifts/close! If you can’t make that time, shoot me a message & we can figure out a time!

Looking to add to our MOO crew for a year round position!
•part-time hours (2-4 evening shifts a week)
•possibility of full-time hours (3-4, 10 hour shifts)
•includes working weekends (closed all sundaes)
•flexible scheduling, we will work around your life😀

We work hard but we sure have fun doing it🐮🤍🍦!

We are excited and appreciative of the additional funding this year to help support our program. We can’t wait to post updates on how we spend our funding with all of you as we do updates on our facilities and able to offer more in our program.

$4M awarded to MI ag education programs, FFA chapters - Michigan Farm News Michigan Farm News

Tomorrow we will be Facebook Live to do our Beef Raffle Drawing. Join us at 11:45 am to see if you are one of the lucky winners! Thanks for all the support for the FFA program.

Just a little over two weeks to buy your raffle tickets and support Belding FFA. All money raised is used to support students in the program. It helps to buy FFA jackets, pay for field trips, pay for competitions, give opportunity for FFA reach out, helps to provide resources for the classroom, etc. You can also make a donation as well. Thanks to all that have supported the cause so far. All raffle tickets must be sold by Tuesday, March 12.

Each partl of the FFA emblem stands for something that is important to the organization. I being a part of FFA, not only do you get to make lifelong friendships, but you also get to learn and build upon being a leader.

During National FFA Awareness Week, we hope to celebrate those who came before us!