Update on Repurposing flowers from Wedding in Wilmington DC

The FFA is pounding flowers during their meeting activity right now; flowers from Wilmington, NC

They are making bookmarks. Then will dye yarn from the flowers for the strings that will go through the holes!

Don’t you just love the sound we are hearing of these students in our County Schools from the FFA!

“”This is so exhilarating to me being from NC and living on a farm in my youth! I just had to remind us of their Creed!

The FFA Creed

“I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds – achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.

I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny.

I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability of progressive agriculturists to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil.

I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining; in the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so–for others as well as myself; in less need for charity and more of it when needed; in being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me.

I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring task.

The creed was written by E.M. Tiffany and adopted at the Third National FFA Convention. It was revised at the 38th and 63rd Conventions.”

Plato “Let me write the songs of a nation; I care not who writes its laws.”

The pounding of these marvelous flowers from my home state to the tables of Loudoun where my sons grew up is the sound of our yesterdays, today and tomorrow. I include my granddaughter and yours children and grands to as the care for our land.

Jeremiah 29:11 states that God has plans “to give you a future and a hope”. 

Thank you FFA!