By Olivia Mountcastle
Olivia served as our 2022 Farm to School Intern as well as the CDC Public Health Associate Program Fellow.
Thank you to all who participated in 2022 October Farm to School Month with our Spinach to Win It! resources, making it an enormous success! The creativity this year was unbe-Leafable! We are so excited to share that we reached…. Drumroll…..
693,000 Students across Georgia with our #SpinachToWinit! Campaign
Georgia’s Governor Kemp recognized the positive impact of statewide Farm to School work by declaring October as Farm to School and ECE Month with an official Proclamation! This honor couldn't have happened without all of the amazing farm-to-school work YOU do.
Georgia Governor Declares the month of October Farm to School/ECE Month state-wide.
We loved following our participants’ activities through the social media tag #Spinachtowinit. The spinach content shared by the students, teachers, faculty, and parents is entertaining and inspiring. You can find it all by searching #Spinachtowinit on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Choosing weekly winners was incredibly difficult—which is why we chose to pick more than one weekly winner.
Some of the innovative projects we saw included:
Painting with spinach
3-D printing Popeye
Spinach songs and raps
And so much more!
We’ve highlighted some of the amazing projects shared by compiling social media posts in a video. Check out all of the spinach fun from the month here.
Our October Farm to School Month, Spinach to Win it! content will remain available throughout the school year, and we encourage everyone to keep the fun going. Spinach season has just begun, so you can continue planting and harvesting spinach into the colder months. Thank you to everyone who participated in activities this month making this a wonderful Spinach-tastic success!
To learn more about our ongoing Farm to School programming, go to farmtoschool.georgiaorganics.org.
Thank you to everyone who participated in activities this month making this a wonderful, Spinach-tastic success!
Our October Farm to School Month, Spinach to Win it! content will remain available through the school year at farmtoschool.georgiaorganics.org/spinachtowinit. Past content from our annual October Farm to School Month campaigns is at gfft.georgiaorganics.org!
Visit georgiaorganics.org to see all of what we do and follow us on social media @georgiaorganics for updates and weekly happenings.