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New Events! New Prizes!
Get Your Virtual Gala Week Tickets Today
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With the Virtual Gala right around the corner, it is a perfect time to grab a ticket or two and get entered into our raffle! Your gala ticket is your chance to win great raffle prizes and support the work of Project GROWS through online giving in support of seeds and tools, farm-based education, farm to school tastings, and more!
Follow along as we update you on new events and raffle prizes for Gala Week, and give you the scoop on all things Project GROWS, including a highlight of our incredible partner Jay Holly, and all of the amazing work he has done for our community! We are so proud of the organizations and individuals that we partner with, and it is always exciting when their hard work and dedication gets recognized.
We hope that everyone is enjoying the fall weather (finally!) and staying safe. We look forward to seeing you at our Gala events!
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Virtual Gala Week Webinar
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As part of our Virtual Gala celebration next week, Project GROWS & WMRA will host a panel discussion Wednesday, November 18th at 3:00pm about the growing need for food literacy, with a focus on the Farm to School programs in Staunton and Waynesboro.
Panelists Include:
- Amanda Warren, Director of School Nutrition, Staunton City Schools
- Laura Bon Cash, School Nutrition Secretary, Waynesboro City Schools
- Laura Faircloth, Director of Farm Operations, Project Grows
- Megan Marshall, Director of Food Access, Project Grows
Moderated by Matt Bingay, General Manager, WMRA
Watch live on Facebook
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This just in! We are excited to share that Jay Holly, former Program Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Waynesboro, Staunton, & Augusta County, has been recognized as a 2020 Community Food Champion by the National Farm to School Network in recognition of the work he has done to connect children to local food experiences.
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In addition to being an inspiring and tireless afterschool educator for local youth, Jay is also an excellent chef and has consistently supported and championed efforts to provide students with summer field trips to our farm, "Young Chefs" cooking classes, veggie tastings, take-home snack packs for students using local produce, and a Youth-Run Farm Stand in the Boys and Girls Club parking lot. He was also a co-conspirator on our Super Summer Chefs video series that encouraged students about healthy eating during the pandemic!
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Harvest of the Month: Winter Squash
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Join Patricia-Marie as she teaches us the different types of winter squash grown on our farms, when to harvest them, and how to cure them for longer storage! You will also learn how to make a simple Glazed Squash recipe, filmed in the brand new teaching kitchen at Staunton High School!
This month’s episode of our Harvest of the Month series is brought to you by Project GROWS, JMD Farms in Staunton, and the Virginia Family Nutrition Program.
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New Raffle Prize: Ballerino Creamery
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Cheese Tasting and Making with Ballerino Creamery
Winter/Spring 2021
Enjoy a delicious virtual cheese tasting for eight with the owner of Staunton's very own Ballerino Creamery, Louella Hill. Gather your favorite foodies and friends and dive deep! Learn about milk, enzymes, cultures, coagulants and more. Taste your way from day old to year old delicacies. Challenge yourself to tasting the difference between the milk of various animal species including goat, sheep and cow. And finally, join Louella as she steps you through making the most enjoyable of home cheesemaking recipes--Fromage Blanc. All in all, you and friends will delight in more than a dozen tastes plus accutroments, have over an hour and a half of education plus enjoy the home cheesemaking experiment that will enable you to keep churning out fresh dairy treats for years to come.
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