By Alicia Holloway

Alicia Holloway is a Farm to Faculty Contractor at Georgia Organics. 

October is Farm to Faculty month, and supporters of those applications all through the USA advocate and promote Farm to Faculty and Farm to Early Care and Training (ECE) actions throughout this time. Farm to Faculty and ECE applications result in many optimistic outcomes for teenagers and farmers. Will increase in college students’ willingness to attempt vegatables and fruits and elevated income for native farmers are two key examples of the influence of college vitamin in nourishing communities.

There’s a lot to have a good time! 

Georgia Organics has organized a statewide marketing campaign in honor of October Farm to Faculty Month for over ten years. The campaigns encourage college students of all ages to study, eat, and develop a particular produce merchandise. Upon signing up, individuals get free entry to an digital toolkit stuffed with veggie-themed classes, actions, recipes, assets, and extra! This yr’s theme was “Pepper Palooza,” however not too long ago, we now have celebrated “Spinach to Win It,” “Livin’ la Vida Okra,” and “Oh my Squash.” Try all of the free assets from earlier campaigns right here.  

This yr’s pepper marketing campaign was a scorching success! 

Taking part communities estimated that their Farm to Faculty Month actions concerned over 1,000,000 college students! As a contract employee on the Group Collaboration workforce, I’ve seen first-hand the unbelievable work faculties and ECE facilities are doing across the state. Highschool college students mentored elementary college students by main pepper-themed studying actions, cafeterias served college garden-grown peppers, and dozens of lessons cooked and taste-tested pepper recipes. I’ve seen movies of scholars singing songs that they wrote about peppers, telling pepper jokes, laughing, smiling, and genuinely having fun with studying about rising their very own produce!