OT - Any Wood Badgers out here

Any other ideas?

• Wood Badge for those not familiar

As far as your question goes, depending on the average age of your scouts, and your equipment, you could prepare a small plot and plant it with corn, beans, wheat, or whatever grows in your neck of the woods. Let them observe the results of the prepared field, the seeds germinating, the cultivating, the fruits coming on, and then the harvest. With 18 months, you should have plenty of time. Show them where their food comes from and what it takes to get it to their table.
Farm safety and safety courses could be taught along the way, maybe another project taken care of in one pass. Hope this helps. Not sure how it fits in with improving your troop, but the kids would have a great learning experience.

Working my ticket contains 5 projects to be completed.

You and I are thinking along the same lines. I could take the farming aspect of it and use it as conservation project for Bobwhite's (pun intended).

In reality FL is now offering conservation funds for maintaining or enhancing Bobwhite habitat due to the continued urban growth - not sure what the gov't leash is though. Watch for updates.

Jim

FFA here now consists of timber cruising, animal husbandry, soils, plant identification and farm mgmt. No practical hands on experience with welders, etc.

I see this as a disservice to the students and the program. For reasons I don't understand everyone thinks the whole world will be going to college after HS. That is a very faulty presumption. I guess the programmed at risk avoidance given today's litigous society.
I guess that is what it is :-(

As such, I am looking for Boy Scout project ideas that I can also incorporate my old iron into. Kind of blend Scouts & old iron. Hope this is better description.