What is Farm to School? Well, simply put, it’s using locally grown foods to both feed and teach. At Community Sprouts, we bring nutrition education into Marietta schools and use the sacred spaces of gardening as a classroom for growing and learning. So, when October Farm to School Month rolls around each year, we are all about it!
This past October at Community Sprouts, our students had a blast learning about, taste-testing, and enjoying their experiences with… PEPPERS! It was a true Pepper Palooza!
We were thrilled to work with a few caring community friends, the Marietta City School Nutrition department, classroom teachers, the Cobb County Farm Bureau, Small Axe Peppers , and Georgia Organics to bring fresh peppers to over 1,000 students, demonstrating that the means to grow, prepare, and eat this healthy food is within our students’ reach.
It’s amazing the themes and subjects we covered through this tasty veg! We made scientific system connections with producers, consumers, and the water cycle. We touched on mood regulation and also made comparisons of peppers’ heat or sweet characteristics. And, of course, we worked in the benefits of composting, soil retentive work, biome, biotic systems, photosynthesis, and more.
