DECEMBER 2022

providing the recording on your member portal in the coming weeks) • Launched our Change.org petition to formally recognize the correct and botanically correct spelling of sweetpotato as one word (not two) – all in an effort to more formally differentiate our preferred “root potato” from the often-misclassified tubers (white Irish/Russet potato and/ or Yam) – be sure to sign and share the petition at https://bit.ly/3uiTRDT All of these efforts were selected to help

Just because it is December doesn’t mean that our office if slowing down, quite the contrary as we have several more activities on our calendars before the years’ end! • We will be participating in the last of the StarChef Restaurant Week Promotions for 2022 in San Francisco, • We will be conducting in-person PR Agency Pitches in Europe for a full week, • And we will be working on finalizing the details for both our Annual State Meeting (January 19 th in Goldsboro, NC), and our National Convention (January 22-24 in Wilmington, NC) if you haven’t yet registered for either/both of these, please do so by visiting our home page at ncsweetpotatoes.com (You may have to scroll just a bit down to find the links to do both) On behalf of the entire office team at the Commission, we wish each of you a beautiful Christmas season. I appreciate that 2022 has been a rollercoaster of a year and it is our prayer that 2023 will be much more straightforward and predictable. In our eyes (and many others), our members are heroes – as you help ensure that the world has the most premium sweetpotatoes produced and you do so with such passion, dedication, and heart. It is our honor to serve and support you and your operations. God’s blessings on each of you and your families.

RDs tour the packing facility at J. Rowland Wood Farms

elevate and raise awareness of our great superfood, not only in our home state, but well beyond our borders and ultimately support you, our members and this great industry! There is so much to say about each of these activities, but I’ll leave it to the photos included and invite you to reach out to our office to learn more details about each.

From Left to Right - your NCPSC Staff: Cindy Vanderhoof, Michelle Grainger, Grayson Braswell, CoCo Daughtry, and Brittany Beasley

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