Georgia Early Care and Training Harvest of the Month Initiative — The Grime

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By Monica Griffin MS, RD, LD

Monica Griffin is the Diet Early Care and Training Supervisor at High quality Look after Kids. To study extra about High quality Look after Kids, go to qualitycareforchildren.org and join with us on social media @QCCGeorgia on Fb, Instagram, and Twitter.

The Georgia Early Care and Training Harvest of the Month is a collaborative marketing campaign to advertise native, seasonal vegatables and fruits in little one care settings.

The initiative is led by High quality Look after Kids, Georgia Organics, and the Georgia Division of Early Care and Studying.

To assist the state-wide initiative, High quality Look after Kids has developed a wide range of assets for little one care suppliers, together with:

  • Colourful poster out there in English and Spanish

  • Cookbook that includes recipes created by Georgia little one care suppliers

  • Dedicated webpage to advertise every Harvest of the Month merchandise, together with classroom exercise concepts, recipes, a ebook checklist, and a household e-newsletter out there in each English and Spanish

  • Digital and in-person training opportunities to assist little one care suppliers procure and put together locally-grown meals, and to combine gardening and food-based studying actions within the classroom

October’s Harvest of the Month merchandise is spinach to align with Georgia Organics’ “Spinach to Win It!” marketing campaign to get children consuming, rising and taking part in Farm to ECE actions throughout Nationwide Farm to College Month.

High quality Look after Kids’s October coaching calendar is concentrated on serving to little one care suppliers implement Farm to ECE packages: