10x Connect Ideas & Service
How can you leverage your efforts 10x around the food plate? What if you…
- learn 10 new ways to agvocate and then train others?
- listen to 10 different viewpoints on farming/ranching?
- engage in conversation about agriculture 10 minutes/day?
- learn from 10 people in different roles around the food plate?
- donate to 10 organizations this year?
- study 10 tactics employed by anti-ag activists?
- grow 10 new friendships with people different than you this year?
- reach out to 10 different people on Facebook or Twitter each week in an ‘agversation’
- ask 10 of your friends in agriculture to join you in agversation?
- volunteer with 10 not-for-profits in a year?
- find 10 new ways to talk about how agriculture works with animals and the environment?
- share 10 photos or videos in the next 10 months with a common ag practice?
- learn about food needs in 10 different countries?
- work with 10 different classrooms in next year?
- study 10 minutes/day how to lead the conversation about food, fuel, feed and fiber?
- teach 10 others how to effectively talk about their farm or ranch?
- give 10 community presentations about your part of agriculture?
- brought 10 students to your farm?
- ask 10 consumers what they think of today’s food production practices?
- bring together 10 people to share best practices related to your business?
- invested 10 minutes into learning Facebook or Twitter to reach the non-ag folks?
- find 10 ways to positively connect agriculture with the nutrition or medical community?
Sometimes the best way to reach out is to give back. Here’s a few ideas from both our business and family activities in the first two months of 10x Connect:
- serve lunch for the PTO teacher appreciation week and had mom conversations about food hormone & antibiotic misinformation
- place food cans in mailbox to support USPS Postal Service Stamp Out Hunger
- walk in Relay for Life; MPK doubled her pledge amount to beat cancer in 3 days
- coach 4-H members in the fine art of dairy judging and oral reasons
- give food to the Caring Center, our local food pantry
- prepare backpacks at church to provide children with meals in the summer
- sponsor meals for one local child throughout summer vacation to help beat childhood hunger
- help kids stay healthy and ACTIVE as a volunteer at school field day
How about you? Share the ways you’re leveraging your community 10x at http://facebook.com/causematters or add your comment to the 10,000 voices post.
