Jenna Curry and Chloe Sell may be teenagers, but they already have a lifelong nemesis: dandelions.
“Dumb dandelions. Those are awful,” Chloe lamented.
“We mowed at the Bank of Gas Friday night, then we drove past it Saturday and looked at it, and it was already high just because of the dandelions,” Jenna explained.
Managing dandelions and weeds is just part of the job, though.
And even though Chloe and Jenna may be teenagers, they’ve run a thriving lawn mowing business for three years now. Their efforts qualified for the State FFA contest after winning a district event recently.
It’s not exactly a typical after-school job, and that was exactly their intention.
Like true entrepreneurs, the girls decided, as freshmen, they wanted a job that would give them flexibility and control of their time and finances.
“How can we make money?” Jenna wondered.
“And be on our own schedules ‘cause we’re so busy,” Chloe added.
Her older brother mowed lawns as a side gig, and Chloe had mowed a few times.
“It’s something we could do in the summer,” she suggested.
“And we’d get a tan,” Jenna said. “We can still be outside and be active.”
Jenna was undeterred by the fact that she had zero experience mowing or taking care of a lawn.
But Jenna had a big blue truck, a trailer and her farmer’s driving permit. Chloe had the loan of her father’s zero-turn mower and other equipment.
Thus, J & C Weedwackers was born.
