All through Georgia, early care facilities and elementary, center, and excessive faculties sprinkled somewhat parsley magic into their school rooms with our parsley-themed sources, 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! Practically ten faculties within the district grew natural parsley of their college gardens and used it to organize recent, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They performed parsley style checks, experimented with new recipes, began composting tasks, and even harvested sufficient parsley to feed total faculties!
All through Georgia, early care facilities and elementary, center, and excessive faculties sprinkled somewhat parsley magic into their school rooms with our parsley-themed sources, 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! Practically ten faculties within the district grew natural parsley of their college gardens and used it to organize recent, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They performed parsley style checks, experimented with new recipes, began composting tasks, and even harvested sufficient parsley to feed total faculties!
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 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 onerous work of the advisors and members. Learn extra about this 12 months’s FCCLA competitors in this weblog put up.
Each college wants scrumptious meals—and our GA Faculty Diet departments introduced the flavour! Many sourced recent parsley from native farmers or college gardens and served parsley-packed dishes within the college cafeterias. Bartow and Polk Faculty Diet Departments have been honored by Georgia Organics for incorporating parsley into their menus at the very 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 faculties and early studying facilities. By 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 domestically grown produce, and 69% deliberate to have interaction with an area 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 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 assist farmer prosperity.
