By: Alicia Holloway

Alicia Holloway is a Farm to Faculty Contractor with the Group Collaborations workforce 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 Schooling (ECE) actions throughout this time. Farm to Faculty and ECE applications result in many optimistic outcomes for youths and farmers. Will increase in college students’ willingness to attempt vegetables and fruit and elevated income for native farmers are two key examples of the affect of college vitamin in nourishing communities.

There’s a lot to rejoice! 

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 find out about, eat, and develop a particular produce merchandise. Upon signing up, individuals get free entry to an digital toolkit full of veggie-themed classes, actions, recipes, assets, and extra! This yr’s theme was “Pepper Palooza,” however lately, we’ve got 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! 

Collaborating communities estimated that their Farm to Faculty Month actions concerned over one million 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 courses 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!