All through Georgia, early care facilities and elementary, center, and excessive colleges sprinkled somewhat parsley magic into their school rooms with our parsley-themed assets, inspiring hands-on studying actions for college students of all ages. Individuals joined the ParSLAY the Day social media contest, sharing their parsley-inspired actions with the hashtag #parslaytheday. Our grand prize winner was the Bartow County Faculty Vitamin Division! Practically ten colleges within the district grew natural parsley of their faculty gardens and used it to organize recent, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They performed parsley style assessments, experimented with new recipes, began composting initiatives, and even harvested sufficient parsley to feed complete colleges!
All through Georgia, early care facilities and elementary, center, and excessive colleges sprinkled somewhat parsley magic into their school rooms with our parsley-themed assets, inspiring hands-on studying actions for college students of all ages. Individuals joined the ParSLAY the Day social media contest, sharing their parsley-inspired actions with the hashtag #parslaytheday. Our grand prize winner was the Bartow County Faculty Vitamin Division! Practically ten colleges within the district grew natural parsley of their faculty gardens and used it to organize recent, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They performed parsley style assessments, experimented with new recipes, began composting initiatives, and even harvested sufficient parsley to feed complete colleges!
The month of October was seasoned with pleasant competitors, including additional taste to our Farm to Faculty actions. Eighteen Georgia FCCLA Chapters competed to create the perfect ParSLAY the Day initiatives, and Ware County Excessive Faculty FCCLA parSLAY-ed first place! Culinary arts college students hosted a parsley-themed week at their student-run Gator Bistro, serving parsley dishes and selling the marketing campaign with enjoyable posters, trivia, and a tasting sales space. Georgia Organics was proud to sponsor this FCCLA competitors, recognizing the exhausting work of the advisors and members. Learn extra about this 12 months’s FCCLA competitors in this weblog publish.
Each faculty wants scrumptious meals—and our GA Faculty Vitamin departments introduced the flavour! Many sourced recent parsley from native farmers or faculty gardens and served parsley-packed dishes within the faculty cafeterias. Bartow and Polk Faculty Vitamin Departments have been honored by Georgia Organics for incorporating parsley into their menus at the least as soon as every week all through October, creating vibrant dishes like Tabbouleh, Spicy Imply Inexperienced Sauce, and Chimichurri to boost the lunch expertise for college students.
Six Georgia farmers partnered with us on the ParSLAY the Day marketing campaign, gaining invaluable publicity and strengthening connections with native colleges and early studying facilities. By way of blogs, newsletters, and social media, we promoted these farms and their companies to people across the state. There was a transparent curiosity amongst ParSLAY the Day contributors to leverage the marketing campaign to attach college students with their native meals system – 90% of marketing campaign contributors expressed their intention to advertise and/or serve regionally grown produce, and 69% deliberate to have interaction with a neighborhood farmer throughout this 12 months’s OFTSM celebrations!
This 12 months, we have been excited to attach the OFTSM marketing campaign with our Household Farm Share program, a low-cost, native produce subscription program designed for households with younger youngsters. Even within the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s devastation, Household Farm Share companions in Southeast Georgia got here collectively to ParSLAY the Day. Farmer Andy Douglas of Crossroad Farm and Backyard generously supplied parsley seedlings for WayGreen to distribute to the 50 households taking part within the weekly subscription program. In West Georgia, Farmers Recent CSA included recent bundles of native, organically grown parsley within the weekly shares going house with their Household Farm Share members. Wanting forward, we’re excited to construct on the success of the OFTSM marketing campaign, creating much more alternatives for native sourcing to assist farmer prosperity.