December Chill
“Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.”
Don’t miss out on our last two markets of the year! Tomorrow and December 14 are our last two, and then we will see you in the new year January 11, 2024!
National Handwashing Awareness Week
12/06/2023
National Handwashing Awareness Week is an annual observance that takes place during the first week of December. This important week aims to promote the significance and benefits of proper hand hygiene practices to prevent the spread of illnesses and maintain good health.
Handwashing is a simple yet effective way to protect ourselves and others from harmful germs. It plays a crucial role in preventing the spread of various infections, such as the common cold, influenza, and even more severe diseases like COVID-19. By washing our hands correctly, we can effectively remove germs, bacteria, and viruses that may have accumulated on our hands throughout the day.
During National Handwashing Awareness Week, there are several key messages that experts and health organizations focus on to raise awareness and encourage better hand hygiene practices. These messages include:
1. When to wash hands: Emphasizing the importance of washing hands at critical times, such as before preparing or eating food, after using the restroom, after touching pets, and after coughing or sneezing.
2. Proper handwashing technique: Highlighting the correct way to wash hands, which includes wetting hands with clean running water, applying soap, rubbing hands together for at least 20 seconds, covering all surfaces of the hands and fingers, rinsing thoroughly, and drying with a clean towel or air dryer.
3. Hand sanitizer usage: Educating individuals about the appropriate use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers when soap and water are not readily available. Stressing the importance of choosing a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol content and applying enough to cover all surfaces of the hands.
4. Hand hygiene habits for children: Encouraging parents, guardians, and educators to teach children the importance of handwashing from an early age. Demonstrating proper handwashing techniques to children and reminding them to wash their hands regularly, especially before meals and after using the restroom or playing outside.
5. Hand hygiene in public settings: Promoting hand hygiene practices in public places such as schools, workplaces, hospitals, and restaurants. This includes providing easy access to handwashing stations or hand sanitizers, displaying proper handwashing instructions, and reminding individuals of the importance of hand hygiene through posters and other informative materials.
National Handwashing Awareness Week serves as a reminder to prioritize handwashing as a daily habit, both individually and as a community. It is a time when the significance of this simple yet powerful act is highlighted, empowering individuals to take charge of their health and well-being.
So, let's all join together during National Handwashing Awareness Week and commit to practicing good hand hygiene. By doing so, we can reduce the transmission of diseases, protect ourselves and others, and create a healthier future for all.
Loy has broccoli, cabbage, collards, turnips, tomatoes, onions, peppers, pecans, apples, oranges, tangerines, blackberries, strawberries, grapes, and mangoes. Ms. Eva has collards, turnips, pecans, and dried herbs and spices! Creekside farms is bringing homegrown Angus beef, sourdough bread, a dessert bread, pepper jellies, cowboy candy, vidalia onion chow chow, turnip greens, jarred tomatoes, salsa, and other produce from his garden!
We are steadily growing, so if you would like to be a part of our community of vendors, let’s talk! We would love to have you! Our goal is to provide food for the body and the soul, so if you are a gardener or farmer or an artist or crafter or baker, you are welcome at our market! Click here for the vendor application link.
We are a partner market with Wholesome Wave Georgia to help make your dollars go further at our market!
Bring your SNAP/EBT card to the market tent to double your spending power!
Where to find us:
We are always looking for more people to join our fun! If you or anyone you know is interested in becoming a vendor at our market, follow the link below for our vendor application!
Just a hint of all the fun we have to offer! Come join us!