Plant Fundraiser April 2022

In this service project, I had grown warm weather crops and sold them, where half the money would go to charity and the other half would go into our troop funds. I had gotten this idea since I had done a sale like this before with another friend of mine, and I wanted to try it out with my boy scouts troop. To grow the plants, I had bought pellets from Home Depot, and I had received seeds as a donation from my mom. Before selling the plants, I had handed out a few pellets along with the seeds to my fellow scout members, and they had helped me grow the plants. A few weeks later, I had given them a few plastic cups and a bag of soil so that they could transfer the grown pellets to a cup. When they had finished transferring the pellets, they took the cups to the next meeting and gave them to me. Then about a week later, me and two other scouts had sold them outside a store, and we had made slightly more than our investments. However, since we did not sell most of the plants, my mom and I had done the sale at a different time, and did one more on a different day. After doing those three sales, we had sold most of our plants.

A few hardships that we had faced was that most of the people growing the plants had said that the plants were not growing enough. It may have to do with the weather or because the plants don’t get enough sunlight. Also, if you compare the two sales, the first one had made more money than the second. The reason for this is maybe because the first sale was during covid, however on the second one, people had not come since most people were on vacation. If this sale had happened during a time where people weren’t on vacation, we would have made almost double the sales.