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Capture your effortsDesignate someone to take photos and videos on the day of to capture your event.

Tell your storyShare your event in your newsletter, on your website, in your local paper, with local politicians and on social media. Let people know why you support New Mexico agriculture!

Bring turnips into the classroomIncorporate turnips and nutrition education, or ask a turnip farmer to come to talk with students, staff, or other folks at your school.

PL ANNING YOUR TERRIFIC TURNIP TASTINGOnce you determine your event, decide where to celebrate.

In the cafeteriaServe your turnips on the lunch line and take pictures of kids and staff enjoying turnips in the cafeteria.

In the classroomCoordinate your Turnip Tasting over a school intercom—have the principal or administrator count down over the loud speaker so everyone at the school crunches at once.

As a communityBring all students and staff together to taste at the same time in the same place. Organize your tasting with your regular fire drill so that everyone is in the same place. Have participants form the shape of a turnip on the playground.

Great ideas from the Terrific Turnip Tasting:• Set a time to coordinate throughout your school.• Take a creative picture with everyone in matching colored shirts.• Have students color in pictures of carrots to post all over the school.• Build in activities from different classes around turnips—have students write turnip-themed poems,

do turnip-themed word problems.

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PROMOTE YOUR EVENT:There are many ways you can engage your community in celebrating turnips along with you!

• Invite local politicians and community leaders• Add a mention in your school newsletter• Announce at school board meeting• Invite parent participation• Create flyers• Social media posts (see below for sample posts)

SOCIAL MEDIA POSTSCopy and paste and adapt these social media posts to promote your Turnip Tasting. Pair them with photos of your staff using turnips.

FAC E B O O K A N D / O R T W I T T E R• Join us for the #TerrificTurnipTasting on (insert your school’s date here) to celebrate New Mexico’s small

farmers and farm to school! • It’s a TERRIFIC TURNIP TASTING at [SCHOOL NAME] on (insert your school’s date here)—

celebrate the #TerrificTurnipTasting• #TerrificTurnipTasting—We’re tasting turnips for the #Terrific Turnip Tasting on

(insert your school’s date here)!

• Visit https://www.afsc.org/story/terrific-turnip-tasting-2020

Salad turnips taste sweet and crunch when you bite them. They have a tender skin and no spiciness. They look round and white and feel smooth. They are also called Tokyo or Hakurei turnips because they originally grew in Japan.

Count the turnips in each group and match them to the correct number.

TRUE FALSE

1. Turnips grow underground � �

2. Turnips are related to broccoli. � �

3. Turnips greens are good to eat. � �

4. Turnips do not grow in New Mexico. � �

5. Turnips can be white, purple, or red. � �

6. Turnips are fruit. � � �

7. Turnips have a lot of vitamin C. � �

Answers: 1. True 2. True, they are in the Brassica family. 3. True 4. False 5. True 6. False – they are root vegetables. 7. True

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Color all the vegetables.Then cut them out with the help of a parent.

Next sort them and paste each kind of vegetable in a row to plant your

own vegetable garden.

Parent Tip: Talk about how plants grow & stages of planting. Ask the

child to name more vegetables.

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Color all the vegetables.Then cut them out with the help of a parent. Next sort them and paste each kind of vegetable in a row to plant your own vegetable garden.

Parent Tip: Talk about how plants grow & stages of planting. Ask the child to name more vegetables.

PurposeThe purpose of this lesson is to introduce a new food to the children in your classroom. The more times children are exposed to new foods, the more likely they are to eat and enjoy these foods in the future.

OverviewIn this lesson, children will describe what a turnip looks like under a magnifying glass. Children will also share if they like how a salad turnip feels, smells and tastes.

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salad turnip

magnifying glasses

taste-testing samples of turnip

taste-testing cups (optional)

Equipment Requiredknife cutting board

Before the Lesson Select one whole turnip for

children to closely examine with magnifying glasses.

Prepare samples of a salad turnip for the children to taste.

Today we are going to be detectives.

Does anybody know what a detective does?

A detective gathers clues by using his or her eyes, hands, nose, and mouth. We are all going to be food detectives today. We are going to use a magnifying glass, something all good detectives carry, to look closely at a food that many of us have not tried before. After we all take a turn looking at the new food, we get to smell and taste the new food.

Adapted from UNM CHILE Plus Curriculum

Equipment Required

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IntroductionThis activity will work well as a circle time activity and at tables, in small groups, for tasting.

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1. What part(s) of the body does your turnip strengthen or support? Hint: Turnips have lots of Vitamin C.

2. What are some “superpowers” that you could have if that part of your body was extra strong?

3. What is your superhero’s name and why?

See our sample on the next page (from the Great Carrot Crunch).

You can also try making other veggies into a superhero!

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DID YOU KNOW?Carrots are one of the best sources of Vitamin A. Vitamin A

is good for your bones, teeth, vision and your skin!

What is a carrot’s favorite martial art?

CARROTEE!!

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Adapted from GROW Windham

Sensory play for preschool: Place scrub brushes and plastic vegetables into a water table to let the kids “clean” veggies.

Sprout seeds: Soak bean seeds overnight. Drain. Place a moist paper towel into a Ziploc bag and place a few seeds in the bag so that they are visible. Close bag and put in a place where they will not be disturbed. Watch the seeds over the next days to see how the seeds send out roots and leaves

TURNIP-RELATED CHILDREN’S BOOKS(available in the Albuquerque & Bernalillo County Public Library System)The Turnip by Jan Brett

In a rollicking, cumulative tale, a badger family and their friends Hedgie, Mr. Ram and Vanya, the horse struggle to pull up a giant turnip. A cocky rooster steps in and pulls, sending him into the air, holding onto the turnip. No one knows that a mother bear in her underground den has kicked the turnip up through the soil to give the family room to sleep through the winter.

Digger pig and the turnip OR Marranita poco rabo y el nabo by Caron Lee Cohen; illustrated by Christopher Denise.

In this adaptation of a traditional folktale a dog, duck, and chick refuse to help a pig prepare a turnip pie but nevertheless expect to eat it when it is ready.

Grandma Lena’s Big Ol’ Turnip by Denia Hester; illustrated by Jackie UrbanovicGrandma Lena grows a turnip so big that it takes her entire family pull it up and half of the town to eat it. Includes a note about cooking “soul food.”

The Gigantic Turnip OR El Nabo Gigante by Aleksei Tolstoy & Niamh SharkeyIn this traditional Russian tale, a farmer grows a turnip so big that it takes the combined efforts of him, his wife, six canaries, fi ve geese, four hens, three cats, two pigs, one cow, and, fi nally, one mouse to pull it from the ground.

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