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Why take Ag Business and Entrepreneurship at CTC?
Discover business through the lens of agriculture. In this course, students develop an understanding of entrepreneurship, marketing, financial management, business planning, and personal finance by applying these concepts to real-world agricultural enterprises. Through advanced coursework, community mentorships, and hands-on projects, students learn how businesses are developed, managed, and sustained. Project opportunities may include honeybee production, cut-flower cultivation, vegetable production, animal enterprises, and other instructor-approved school-based enterprises. Students apply their learning by developing and managing an agricultural business project as part of an Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE). Dual enrollment opportunities allow students to earn college credit while building practical skills that can be applied to careers in agriculture, business, or future entrepreneurship. This course also fulfills the Personal Financial Literacy requirement.
Students will have unique opportunities to develop business and marketing plans for an agricultural business. Some opportunities include selling honey through an FFA SAE Project, and school-based enterprises that include: fundraiser dinners and plant sales. The experiences complement students work in the apiary (bee hives), working with culinary, plant sales including poinsettia sales and spring plant sales, and working with the Landscaping Program for plant productions.
Through grant funding from the Maryland Agriculture Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund, in partnership with Frederick Community College, and the Career and Technology Center will be offering BGMT109 - Entrepreneurship (Dual Enrollment), BGMT140 - Intro to Ag Business (Dual Enrollment). In 2022, we enhanced our offerings to make Ag Business an additional completer pathway.
For more information, contact Diane Herndon - diane.herndon@fcps.org or Kristen Daly - kristen.daly@fcps.org
Students will have the unique opportunity to develop business and marketing plans for an agricultural business. Some experiences include work in the apiary, cut flower production, aquaponics system and community supported agriculture vegetable production.
Both Classes - Meet Financial Literacy Graduation Requirement
A trip to Hometown Harvest
How A Local Family has Expanded Their Traditional Dairy Farm to Survive in a Changing Market
Collaboration with Culinary - Making Applesauce
Apples - Value Added
At the fair - Educating about the Honeybees and giving away samples of honey butter rolls with culinary
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