Vanessa Trotter is a 2023 National Proficiency Winner in the category of Nursery Operations. This all began when she was 8 years old. Her father had just recently purchased his families farm that had been auctioned off when his grandfather passed away 20+ years earlier. After the purchase he approached Vanessa, the eldest of four children, and told her that she would be going to college in 10 years and it was time to start thinking about how to make some money to pay for that.
This is when TNT Farms was born with a small pumpkin patch that Vanessa tended. She later sold the pumpkins to customers in her area, and she was hooked. Since that time Vanessa has grown this business. Today she has purchased three greenhouses, started selling products at a local farmers market and selling directly off of her farm.
Vanessa is now in college, studying agricultural business, with the hopes of being her own boss in the future. However, she is going to pass TNT Farms to her siblings for multiple reasons. Each of the will have an SAE they can move right into when their time in the FFA comes. Also, it can serve as a revenue source for them to also save for college. What a great family legacy that Vanessa begin with a simple pumpkin patch.
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