Celebrate 12 Years of Growing Goodness with Georgia Organics’ “Apple of Our Eye” Farm to School Resources — The Dirt

2025: Apple of Our Eye 

This October marks our final Farm to School Month campaign, and we’re doing things a little differently. Instead of our usual rollout with sign-ups, contests, and coordinated outreach, we’re making all Apple of Our Eye resources available for free and easy access here. As Georgia Organics permanently pauses our Farm to School and Farm to ECE programmatic work, we invite you to carry the celebration forward in your own way. While we won’t be sending engagement emails or running contests, we’ll still be cheering you on from afar. So please keep sharing your photos, lessons, and local apple fun on social media using #appleofoureye 

 A Note of Gratitude 

Over the past 12 years, each Farm to School Month campaign has been its own rich harvest- rooted in care, creativity, and connection. Together, they’ve grown into something much bigger than any one veggie, school, or celebration. These campaigns, crafted with love, served with joy, and shared by thousands, have been a gift to work on and to share. And at the heart of it all has always been you, the incredible community of educators, farmers, food service workers, caregivers, and kids who brought it to life. You are the true apple of our eye. 

Together, we’ve transformed taste tests into triumphs, gardens into classrooms, and lunchtime into learning. You’ve shown us what’s possible when a community grows something together; not just food, but relationships, resilience, and wonder. 

As we mark the end of this chapter, we do so with deep gratitude and pride in our work. To every teacher who turned a snack into a lesson, every school nutrition professional who sourced locally, every farmer who welcomed little hands into the field, and every child who took that first curious bite- thank you. You made this work matter. 

The official campaigns may be ending, but the spirit of Farm to School Month lives on in every seed planted, every local bite served, and every child who now knows where their food comes from. The impact, relationships, and joy we’ve cultivated together will continue to grow in classrooms, gardens, and communities across Georgia. 

Because once you plant the seeds of connection, they keep on growing. 

Resources 

The Apple of Our Eye resources are now available online–free and accessible to anyone! This ap-peel-ing toolkit is packed with FREE apple-themed lesson plans, activities, cafeteria recipes, and more. From the classroom to the cafeteria, we’ve got everything you need to celebrate apples to the core. 
Don’t leaf this opportunity behind–be sure to take advantage of these fapple-ulous resources found in our Farm to School Lessons Library here for your upcoming appley celebrations.   

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