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. Contributors 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 Diet Division! Almost ten colleges within the district grew natural parsley of their faculty gardens and used it to arrange recent, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They carried out parsley style checks, experimented with new recipes, began composting tasks, 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. Contributors 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 Diet Division! Almost ten colleges within the district grew natural parsley of their faculty gardens and used it to arrange recent, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They carried out parsley style checks, experimented with new recipes, began composting tasks, and even harvested sufficient parsley to feed complete colleges!
The month of October was seasoned with pleasant competitors, including further taste to our Farm to Faculty actions. Eighteen Georgia FCCLA Chapters competed to create the very best 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 arduous work of the advisors and members. Learn extra about this yr’s FCCLA competitors in this weblog publish.
Each faculty wants scrumptious meals—and our GA Faculty Diet 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 Diet Departments have been honored by Georgia Organics for incorporating parsley into their menus not less than as soon as per 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 priceless publicity and strengthening connections with native colleges and early studying facilities. By means 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 individuals to leverage the marketing campaign to attach college students with their native meals system – 90% of marketing campaign individuals expressed their intention to advertise and/or serve domestically grown produce, and 69% deliberate to interact with an area farmer throughout this yr’s OFTSM celebrations!
This yr, 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 offered parsley seedlings for WayGreen to distribute to the 50 households taking part within the weekly subscription program. In West Georgia, Farmers Contemporary CSA included recent bundles of native, organically grown parsley within the weekly shares going residence 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 help farmer prosperity.
