What’s Farm to College? Effectively, merely put, it’s utilizing regionally grown meals to each feed and educate. At Group Sprouts, we carry vitamin schooling into Marietta faculties and use the sacred areas of gardening as a classroom for rising and studying. So, when October Farm to College Month rolls round annually, we’re all about it!  

This previous October at Group Sprouts, our college students had a blast studying about, taste-testing, and having fun with their experiences with… PEPPERS! It was a real Pepper Palooza!  

We had been thrilled to work with just a few caring group buddies, the Marietta Metropolis College Vitamin division, classroom lecturers, the Cobb County Farm Bureau, Small Axe Peppers , and Georgia Organics to carry recent peppers to over 1,000 college students, demonstrating that the means to develop, put together, and eat this wholesome meals is inside our college students’ attain.  

It’s wonderful the themes and topics we coated by means of this tasty veg! We made scientific system connections with producers, customers, and the water cycle. We touched on temper regulation and likewise made comparisons of peppers’ warmth or candy traits. And, in fact, we labored in the advantages of composting, soil retentive work, biome, biotic programs, photosynthesis, and extra.