1. Purchase and Resale Aerial Photographs from Tax Office to Landowners

S. A. E. Ideas

1.  Purchase and resale aerial photographs from tax office to landowners.

2.  Start an Agricultural Business Promotion Business.

3.  Become an agricultural consultant for farm news for local radio or newspapers.

4.  Provide a custom barbeque service for the community.

5.  Provide a co-op program for an agribusiness

6.  Conduct a study of commodity trading over a period of time

7.  Start a composting business.

8.  Design a computer application plan for an agricultural commodity.

9.  Form a cooperative with other students and share in profits of a greenhouse crop.

10.  Contract with the local Chamber of Commerce to conduct county tours for prospective businesses

11.  Provide custom feed for livestock

12.  Create a custom labor venture: mow pastures, weed crops, paint outbuildings, etc .

13.  Offer a custom parts and supplies delivery service

14.  Start a local farm produce sale paper

15.  Provide a farm sign business

16.  Start a Farm Sitting Business for Vacationing Farmers

17.  Working At A Florist

18.  Job Placement in food distribution or restaurant

19.  Conduct general home maintenance

20.  Provide a hand weeding crew for local peanut/vegetable farmers

21.  Provide custom hay baling and/or hauling

22.  Write "how-to" pamphlets for sale

23.  Job-shadow agribusiness professionals

24.  Start a kerosene route for homeowners

25.  Provide livestock hauling

26.  Marketing Christmas trees

27.  Develop a marketing plan for an agricultural commodity

28.  Package fresh fruit or vegetable gift baskets

29.  Start an Agriculture Photography Service

30.  Fry pork rinds for local stores

31.  Pre-sell meat to clients on a weekly basis

32.  Pre-sell seafood to clients on a weekly basis

33.  Pre-sell vegetables in family portions delivered weekly

34.  Preserve food for home use

35.  Start a recycling business

36.  Adopt an area of school campus for beautification

37.  Provide a small engine maintenance and repair service

38.  Provide systematic maintenance and service on outdoor power equipment

39.  Write news articles on agriculture or FFA for a local newspaper

40.  Construct and Sale Birdhouses and Feeders

41.  Construct a Utility Building

42.  Construction and Sale of Compost Bins

43.  Construction of Concrete Projects

44.  Electrical Repair Service

45.  Working with a Farm Equipment Dealer

46.Start a farm fence company for custom work

47. Constructing Welding Projects

48. Build frames for raised beds for gardeners

49. Build handicap ramps in local community

50. Provide Custom Painted Mailboxes and Stands

51. Construction of Metal Projects

52. Build a patio for the home

53. Making Personalized Signs for Sale

54. Building Picnic Tables for Sale to Schools and Local Community

55. Installing Plumbing Fixtures or Plumbing System in Your On Building

56. Provide a Poultry House Maintenance Preparation Business

57. Provide small engine maintenance and repair service

58. Construct Spray Rigs for Four Wheelers

59. Wire a Home Shop, Utility Room, Barn, etc.

60. Contract with timber companies and landowners to maintain boundary lines

61. Start a small Christmas tree plot

62. Remove damaged trees for landowners

63. Collect/market natural supplies to sell to craft stores

64. Cutting and/or marketing firewood

65. Collect used Christmas trees and yard trimmings to compost for fertilizer

66. Purchase bulk pine bark from a sawmill, bag and resale

67. Purchase bulk pine bark from a sawmill, bag and resale

68. Baling and Market Pine Straw

69. Start a forest tree planting business

70. Grind up unusable lumber from construction sites and sell for mulch

71. Contract with a tree removal service to buy their trees, saw and sell for lumber

72. Organic Vegetable Production

73. Produce Watermelons

74. Adopt a Community Building for Beautification

75. Growing organic cut flowers for farmers' markets

76. Produce Daylillies

77. Create and Market Custom Floral Designs

78. Indoor Plant Rental To Local Teachers and School Staff

79. Fruit Tree Pruning Service

80. Working At A Garden Center

81. Start a Garden Photography Business

82. Garden Plots at Home or at School; Produce Crops to Market.

83. Produce Greenhouse Crop (Ferns)

84. Grow Greenhouse Plants in Rented School Greenhouse/Cold-frame Space

85. Grow herbs

86. Start a Hydroponic Vegetable Business

87. Start a Lawn Irrigation Installation Business

88. Work For A Nursery Business

89. Landscape Maintenance

90. Provide Landscaping Materials To Local Business

91. Landscape Pruning Enterprise

92.  Collect, Press, Mount And Identify Plants That Are Growing On Campus

93.  Grow liriope

94.  Mulching Service

95.  Grow and Sale mushrooms

96.  Develop a Park on Public Property

97.  Producing Perennials From Seed

98.  Indoor Plant Rental To Local Businesses

99.  Grow And Sell Produce Crops

100.  Renovating an Overgrown Houseplant Business

101.  Establishment of a Community Roadside Wildflower Planting

102.  Propagate and Market shrubs

103.  Offer a shrub care service

104.  Growing Strawberries For The Roadside Market

105.  Raise Tomato Seedlings And Replant Into One-Gallon Pots To Sell.

106.  Turf Grass Establishment Business

107.  Vegetable Container Gardening

108.  Start A Vegetable Transplant Business

109.  Construction of Backyard Watergarden

110.  Conduct a research project for Agriscience Fair (local and national)

111.  Compare weight gain of chicks fed different feed rations

112.  Conduct a supervised control burn and assess plant growth

113.  Conduct food science experiments

114.  Grow crops with different mechanical/chemical applications, fertilizers, growth regulators, and observe/report the results

115.  Plant growth and mineral Deficiency Experiment

116.  Monitor local air quality; record and report

117.  Plant raised beds and monitor the growth of the plants

118.  Conduct a plant growth and physiology experiment in school agriscience lab

119.  Research project on plant growth factors

120.  Research project on how light quality affects plant growth

121.  Research project on plant reproduction

122.  Work with agencies involved in research (USDA, DNR, etc...)

123.  Conduct a research project on a specific career, set up a business plan, including expenses, possible income etc.

124.  Research pines planted on tight spacing, water and fertilize, and compare with regular spaced planted pines.

125.  Soil conservation project on private or public land

126.  Study the effect of fertilizer run-off into a pond or stream

127.  Study the effects of herbicide type and varying concentrations

128.  Temperature effects on Worms’ (Red Wigglers) food consumption

129.  Plant and maintain a research plot on different types of turf grasses

130.  Adopt a local stream to monitor water quality

131.  Developing a Backyard Bird Habitat

132.  Developing a Backyard Wildlife Habitat

133.  Collect, mount, and identify insects found on school campus

134.  Start a bullfrog farm. (Sell fresh frogs to local restaurants)

135.  Plant a butterfly garden at school

136.  Provide custom dove shoots or quail hunts

137.  Provide a debris removal service along rivers and streams; sell driftwood and other items to consumers

138.  Construct deer stands for sale

139.  Construct duck nesting boxes for sale

140.  Raise mallard or wood ducks for sale to pond owners

141.  Conduct endangered plant surveys for landowners

142.  Start an equipment trailer fabrication business

143.  Start a fish fingerling nursery. (Catfish, trout, bream)

144.  Measure land for the local FSA office

145.  Monitor success rate of bluebird houses

146.  Start a wildlife food plot and native plant enhancement business for local l andowners and hunting clubs

147.  Non-Game Wildlife Management

148.  Plan and develop an outdoor classroom

149.  Provide a pond fertilization and testing service

150.  Raise popular game birds; sell them for meat and as taxidermy products

151.  Conduct a research project on how to prevent deer damage to a home garden

152.  Start a rock store; sell for landscaping purposes.

153.  Monitor water-runoff from school parking lot

154.  Plan and Develop a School Nature Trail

155.  Developing a Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat

156.  Trap nuisance animals

157.  Construct turtle traps for pond owners

158.  Conduct a water quality study on area lakes or streams

159.  Develop and/or maintain wetland area on private or public land

160.  Develop and/or maintain a wildlife food plot on private or public land

161.  Start a Red Cockaded Woodpecker relocation service

162.  Provide a beehive rental service for farms and gardens

163.  Start a crawfish farm

164.  Start a cricket ranch

165.  Start a dog exercising business

166.  Raise a dog for show

167.  Work at a dog kennel

168.  Start a fish bait farm

169.  Raise fish in tanks or floating cages

170.  Raise quail or other game birds for flight and/or meat

171.  Start a honey production business

172.  Raise llamas

173.  Raise meat goats

174.  Raise miniature cattle

175.  Raise miniature horses

176.  Start a dog obedience school

177.  Pet Services

178.  Start a pet grooming business

179.  Work at a pet store

180.  Raise rabbits for pets or meat animal

181.  Raise a Market Goat for Show

182.  Raise mice, hamsters, or gerbils

183.  Raise special breeds of dogs

184.  Train sporting dogs

185.  Start a gopher tortoise relocation service for landowners

186.  Raise tropical fish to sell to the local pet store

187.  Raise turtles to sell at the local pet store

188.  Work or Volunteer at a Vet clinic

189.  Raise worms to collect and sell to bait stores

190.  Still stumped? Visit http://aged.ces.uga.edu/SAE/index.htm for more possibilities