Spring (and almost summer!) has most definitely sprung within our Full Circle Gardens.  Carrots, kale, herbs, tomatoes and an assortment of other vegetables are currently being harvested from our Destin and Walton Academy Gardens.  With all of these vegetables, we have been able to use these veggies in our Emeril Lagasse Full Circle Cooking Classes.  It is great to be able to teach the students how to use what is available to you in your recipes, and to show them exactly where their food is coming from.  

Just take a look at the Destin Garden (as of mid-May):

Here is vegetable output from both the Destin and Walton Academy Garden:

Stay tuned to see some of the finished meals using these ingredients!

What a great way to kick off our Summer Program food drive! Thank you to Pizza by the Sea, Winn-Dixie and Grand Boulevard for hosting our vans to collect food items for our summer program. There was a great turn out at each location over the last two weeks, and we are grateful to you and your customers for helping to fill our pantry for the summer.

Look below at the number of food items that were collected through each location; these donations have helped to provide for our first summer service earlier this week: 

• Pizza-by-the-Sea: 1,227 food items
• Winn-Dixie Destin: 801 food items and $1K in monetary donations
• Grand Boulevard Farmer's Market: 355 food items and $135 in monetary donations

We still are collecting donations for the 2nd and 3rd summer meal service.  You can drop off donations at any of the pantry locations on Tuesdays, from 8:30-4:30, or donate online HERE. 

A portion of the donations from Cram the Van:

Pizza-by-the-Sea: 

Wow, what a great event the Love All Tennis Tournament in Rosemary Beach event turned out to be! 

A huge thank you to Hilary & Reverie Properties for organizing and sponsoring this event, as well as a thank you to the many other sponsors who donated food, time and items for the silent Auction.  This sold-out event raised more than $14K for Food Thought, and we are so grateful!!

We hope that our 48 players enjoyed their day playing in the sun; it definitely was a warmer day than expected but all the players looked to be having a great time.

In addition to a full day of tennis, the auction lot did not disappoint.  Thank you to the local businesses who donated for the silent auction:

• Lizard Thicket Boutique
• Sunset Helicopter Flight
• Dinner for 4 by Roux 30a
• Spa treatment from Destin Plastic Surgery
• IV treatments from Aesthetic Clinic
• Escapology Escape Rooms Destin game package,
• Dinner for 6 by Macho Taco
• (and many more items were available as well!)

Keep an eye out for the 2020 Love All Tennis Save the Date; this event will most definitely be back in 2020!

We had such a fun day hosting our first annual crawfish boil on Sunday, May 5th! It was a beautiful (and hot!) day, and we loved visiting with the guests that stopped by to eat crawfish and listen to music performed by Scott Rockwood. Through your generosity, we raised $2,150 for our summer meal program! This was definitely a great way to kick off our summer program and we look forward to hosting another event at FFT hopefully in the near future.  Thank you to all who came out and for your support!