HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1920’s, the state of Virginia, under the guidance of Henry Groseclose, a pioneer in vocational agriculture, formed a Future Farmers Club for boys enrolled in agricultural classes. From there a national organization was founded in 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the points of controversy surrounding the actual founding concerns the possibility of a fifth person being present at the first meeting September of 1925. That person was Jim Hoge. Hoge was an agricultural teacher in Wythe County in 1925 and later became a supervisor of agricultural education.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sanders, and Henry Groseclose sat around a table in the Agricultural Education Department at Virginia Tech and proposed the idea that would turn into the Future Farmers of Virginia (FFV). The FFV was conceived of as a state-wide organization to help develop young farmers through vocational education.