Welcome to the first Harvest of the Month: Rainbow carrots!

Rainbow carrots will be available at your school on Monday, October 13th by 1 pm.

What to do?

  1. Contact your teacher to schedule a time for your tasting.
  2. Check with your teacher if any students have food allergies.
  3. Take the Harvest of the Month home and prepare them for your tasting! There are many recipe ideas included in the handouts, but you can always keep it simple.
  4. Look over the curriculum and plan key education nuggets you think your class will enjoy.
  5. Return the green canvas bag the produce came in to the pick up location.

Resources

Coming soon

Rainbow carrot fun facts

  • Carrots were first grown in Afghanistan thousands of years ago, according to Food Literacy Center.
  • The story about carrots improving night vision was a clever lie told by the British during World War II to hide their radar technology according to the Kids Encyclopedia Facts.
  • The leafy tops, flowers, and even the seeds of the carrot plant are edible too!
  • Eating too many carrots can cause a temporary condition called carotenemia (carot-en-emia), which can turn your skin yellow-orange according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Rainbow carrot recipes

Produce pick up locations

  • Creekside: Front office
  • Donner Trail: Front office (produce goes on the Donner Trail bus at 8 am)
  • Glenshire: Front office
  • Kings Beach: Teacher lounge (across from the main office)
  • SELS: Front office
  • Tahoe Lake: Outside main office
  • Truckee: Teacher lounge (across from the main office)