October Farm to Faculty Month could also be months away, however we’re already planning this 12 months’s celebration! Farm to Faculty fans weighed in with simply over 180 submissions to our annual marketing campaign naming contest. Our favorites included “Energy to the Parsley”, “Parsley within the USA”, “Come on Parsley, let’s go Social gathering”, and even “Rockin’ the Backyard with Elvis Parsley!”.
This 12 months’s theme identify is ParSLAY the Day, and we all know cafeterias and lecture rooms can be killing it with the intense, daring taste of parsley. Herbs make unbelievable enhances to greens in seasoning blends, salad dressings, and different sauces, making it good to make use of lavishly on Georgia grown merchandise all through October Farm to Faculty month. When well-known foodie James Beard listed the herbs he couldn’t prepare dinner with out, he mentioned parsley is “so common it goes with out saying.”
Parsley is an easy-to-grow, cool-season herb, making it nice for lecture rooms and faculty gardens in addition to the cafeteria. In class gardens, parsley has the extra benefit of being a number plant for Black Swallowtail butterflies. It may be planted in early spring; no want to attend for October to begin exploring all the probabilities parsley has to supply.
