Ames Tribune
What started as a quarantine project for Iowa State senior Danielle Youngblut blossomed into a sunflower business and became one of two Story County finalists for a statewide agriculture business award.
Youngblut s business, Gravel Road Sunflowers, and Iowa State alum and Ames resident Ray Schmidt s business, Farm Story Meats, qualified as finalists for the second annual Grow Your Future Award. The two both got their start as student entrepreneurs. It just brought a little bit more happiness to me, Youngblut said. It gave me a project that I could work on, it gave me goals that I could focus on and it also brought me a lot of people directly to my business that I interacted with and socialize with.