All through Georgia, early care facilities and elementary, center, and excessive faculties sprinkled somewhat parsley magic into their school rooms with our parsley-themed assets, inspiring hands-on studying actions for college kids 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 College Diet Division! Almost ten faculties within the district grew natural parsley of their college gardens and used it to organize contemporary, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They carried out parsley style checks, experimented with new recipes, began composting initiatives, 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 assets, inspiring hands-on studying actions for college kids 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 College Diet Division! Almost ten faculties within the district grew natural parsley of their college gardens and used it to organize contemporary, scratch-cooked meals for cafeteria lunches. They carried out parsley style checks, experimented with new recipes, began composting initiatives, 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 College actions. Eighteen Georgia FCCLA Chapters competed to create one of the best ParSLAY the Day initiatives, and Ware County Excessive College 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 yr’s FCCLA competitors in this weblog submit.
Each college wants scrumptious meals—and our GA College Diet departments introduced the flavour! Many sourced contemporary parsley from native farmers or college gardens and served parsley-packed dishes within the college cafeterias. Bartow and Polk College Diet Departments have been honored by Georgia Organics for incorporating parsley into their menus a minimum of 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 kids.
Six Georgia farmers partnered with us on the ParSLAY the Day marketing campaign, gaining precious publicity and strengthening connections with native faculties and early studying facilities. Via blogs, newsletters, and social media, we promoted these farms and their companies to of us 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 regionally 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 kids. 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 collaborating within the weekly subscription program. In West Georgia, Farmers Recent CSA included contemporary bundles of native, organically grown parsley within the weekly shares going residence with their Household Farm Share members. Trying 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.
