What kind of SEED are you?

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What Kind of SEED Are You?

Discover your role in the community and your connection to agriculture through this engaging quiz! Answer 10 thought-provoking questions about your preferences and how you would approach various scenarios.

Uncover insights into your personality and find out how you relate to community involvement in gardening and agriculture.

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You have to opportunity to support community members by volunteering your time at one of our community gardens. What do you do?

Let's get our hands dirty! I love playing in the dirt, helping the community is just a plus.

I don't know much about gardening, but I will help the community in any way that I can!

I don't do gardens. I'll help in some other way though!

Count me out, I'm just too busy.

You receive an email from a community member interested in gaining more knowledge in agriculture production. They currently have a backyard garden, but want to expand. What course of action do you take?

Reply to the email directing the individual to our website programs page for more info.

Forward the email to program managers and ask that they get in touch with the individual.

Reply to the email and request more information so you know where to direct the individual.

Put it on your to do list to reply when you can.

You're hosting a class this evening, but you have received a call from an individual who wants to attend, but did not meet the registration deadline. What do you do?

Allow the individual to attend despite late registration.

Extend your apologies and encourage them to check out the other events and resources on our website for the future.

Tell them "Sorry, you missed the deadline, better luck next time."

You're on a hiking trip on a popular local trail with your friends over the weekend. You stop to have a picnic and the topic of work comes up. One of your friends has successfully grown many acres of hard squash and has no idea what to do with it. What do you do?

Change the subject and follow up with them on Monday. It's the weekend and I am not working right now!

I'm happy to chat about what we do! Let them know about the opportunities at Appalachian Harvest and tell them you will follow up next week.

I don't really know enough about how we can help, so I direct them to our website.

Let them know who they can reach out to at AH for more information next week.

Another leader in the community reaches out to you about collaborating. You're feeling overwhelmed and unsure how you will be able to take on an additional task. What do you choose to do?

Apologize and let them know you will be reaching back out when you are able to come up for air from your current workload.

Reach out to other members of the team to see if anyone sees an opportunity in the information provided and have them reach out to the other community leader.

Reply to the email to gather more information if necessary and reach out to appropriate members of the team for a meeting.

Make the time and schedule a phone call with the community leader and other team members for a brainstorming session. The opportunity is too good to pass up!

You receive a phone call from someone in Tennessee with basic gardening knowledge. They are eager to learn as much as possible, but they are unable to travel to local classes. What do you do?

Check with other staff members to see if we have any partners closer to the caller that might be able to provide assistance.

Direct the caller to visit our website for online resources.

Apologize to the caller that we will be unable to assist them.

A family just moved to the region and are currently living on a farm. They want to pursue various production avenues in order to make a living after retirement. What do you do?

Get on the phone with the family to learn more about their farming aspirations so that you have some idea of where to direct them within the organization.

Direct them to our website to research how we can help on their own time.

Schedule a visit with them to set eyes on what they have to work with and then report back to appropriate staff members.

Ignore them because you are too busy.

A staff member shares a helpful professional development opportunity with the whole staff. It's a 2 hour long webinar on a skill that would be helpful for you to learn more about, but you have meetings immediately before and after with no chance for a lunch break. What do you do?

I want to learn more about this! Grab a snack and make it work.

I need a free minute back in my day. I'll catch the next one.

Reach out to the webinar organizer to see if the session will be recorded so that you can watch it at another time.

You've got an incredibly busy week ahead of you. How do you prepare?

Make a list of priorities and stick to it.

Wing it and hope for the best!

Get as much done as you can and put off what you don't get done until the next week.

Set calendar reminders for important tasks in between meetings so you don't forget anything.

If it doesn't get done during the work week, I plan to work all weekend to finish every single task.

It's Wednesday at 9AM - time for staff meeting. You just woke up after a late night and haven't had coffee yet with only 5 minutes to join the meeting. What do you do?

Get that coffee going and hop on the call at 9AM.

I'm one of those annoyingly happy morning people that have no problem waking up and getting started ASAP. Just join the meeting!

Start coffee, choke it down, join the meeting late. Better late than never!

I'm not on my A game. Skip it and be sure to join the next one.

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