On Saturday, Jordan High School held a fundraiser for their Future Farmers of America program at Southern States Carrboro spring market. The FFA students sold t-shirts and food while visitors played cornhole, painted pots and made chalk art.
Spring began on March 20, and Jordan High School FFA and Southern States Carrboro worked together to welcome the new season. Students helped the garden store run its spring market and ran the fundraiser. Community members shopped Southern States' flower selection and then headed over to the FFA tent to buy food, play games and get creative.
The fundraiser was set up in the Southern States’ parking lot. In between competitive games of cornhole, attendees took breaks to buy drinks and snacks. There were three tables set up with planting pots, brushes and a rainbow of paint colors to choose from. The students rang in spring and promoted their fundraiser with chalk art that read “FFA” and featured blooming flowers.
The event ran from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and students got there at 10:30 a.m. to set up. Jordan High student Audrey Lanigan painted green flowers onto her second pot of the day while volunteering for FFA. Other students attended to get volunteer hours for the National Honors Society or just to enjoy the fundraiser’s activities and nice weather.
“It’s been kind of quiet, I think it's starting to populate a little more. I think more people are trying to get out here,” Lanigan said.
There were about 20 people in attendance, most of them being FFA members or advisors, but more people came and went during the four hours that the event ran.
FFA is a national organization for students interested in agriculture. The FFA students organized the event themselves.
“It helps students build leadership skills in high school and we do a lot of stuff,” Cooper Hatch, an advisor at Jordan High School, said. “We currently have goats on campus that students are raising. We do lots of different competitions throughout the year and so this is just helping us raise funds for that program.”
