What's Growing On in Our Gardens?
- Dill
- Cilantro
- Fennel
- Parsley
- Radish
- Turnip
- Collard Greens
- Mustard Greens
- Cabbage
- Kale
- Peas
Come plant with us in 2014 at our
Open Garden Days!
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Aeroponics Program at Joseph S. Clark
In a small, triangular space behind a chain-link fence at Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School where there was once only weeds, five aeroponic gardening towers are teeming with life. Clark's Seed-to-Table class seeded the towers early this fall, and participate in weekly science-based lessons on seasonal growing and cooking. Clark students are now seeing the results, with towers of lettuce and herbs, which make for good cooking and eating!
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Goats Galore
Langston Hughes Academy now has three goats: a mama, her baby, and a pigmy goat. This little fella, Donkey, loves to jump and climb on things! Keep up with the goats on LHA's Dreamkeeper Blog
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ESYNOLA Receives USDA Stamp of Approval
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Edible Schoolyard New Orleans is one of 71 projects across 42 states and the District of Columbia to receive support in 2014 and 2015, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Farm to School" program. The USDA's funding helps connect school cafeterias and students with local farmers and ranchers.
ESYNOLA will use Farm to School funds to expand our student education and family supported agriculture programs, and to continue our work with Tulane University's Schools of Medicine and Public Health to evaluate the impact of Edible Schoolyard's 3,000 daytime and afterschool gardening and cooking classes and special events on the daily habits of students and parents, who are among the nation's most vulnerable to malnutrition and chronic disease.
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We would like to give a hearty
to all our interns & volunteers!
 Thank you so much for your commitment and service! |
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At Iron Chef a few weeks ago, a woman watched her 5th grade daughter fillet a fish. She said,
"This program gives kids all kinds of different opportunities. My daughter has really been enjoying her new cooking skills, so this year, I'm graduating her to Season Chopper for the holidays!"
Two fifth-graders and Juan's Flying Burrito serve judges a bacon & shrimp taco with satsuma slaw, black beans and coconut rice at Arthur Ashe's first Iron Chef competition. The secret ingredient was satsuma.
Your gifts
create these opportunities.
THANK YOU for including ESYNOLA in your year-end charitable giving! |
Watermelon Day
Watermelon Day at three FirstLine Schools featured local farmers from the Indian Springs Farmer Cooperative, melon tastings, and activities like this relay race at Samuel J. Green Charter School, in which students rolled watermelons and answered trivia questions. Read more!
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Food Day
At Langston Hughes Academy, Food Day celebrated nutrition and local ingredients. Organizations like Crescent City Farmer's Market, new Orleans Food Cooperative, and LPHI School Health Connection joined school faculty and staff to show sixth graders and their parents fun ways to eat healthy. Read more!
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Sweet Potato Fest
At ESYNOLA's inaugural Sweet Potato Fest at Arthur Ashe Charter School, families, faculty, and staff harvested 311 pounds of sweet potatoes, made sweet potato pizzas with garden-fresh ingredients, and participated in the free health screenings and activities at the Health and Wellness fair. Read more!
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Now in its second year, FirstLine's comprehensive school wellness initiative offers school-based strategies to improve the health outcomes of 2,808 students through school-based wellness committees, food and nutrition education, healthy school meals and snacks, increased opportunities for physical activities including physical education classes, recess and instant recess.
--Clark's wellness committee sponsored and staffed a satsuma tasting and led a "smoothie" pilot, that will lead to smoothies becoming part of the Clark breakfast menu in 2014.
--LHA's wellness committee and ESY garden team have consistently led Wellness Wednesdays for staff, including healthy snacks and mini-physical activities for teachers and staff.
--Ashe hosted a Saints and Pelicans pep rally with the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-free Living, where 400 kids signed pledges with their role models to live healthy, tobacco-free lives. Ashe will host parent cooking classes in their ESY teaching kitchen for family members in January.
--Dibert hosted a middle school health and wellness day with healthy snacks and lively line dancing with Lady D, and several planning sessions to envision the future garden for therapeutic, community engagement and environmental learning purposes at their new school site in Treme next year.
--Green staff is planning for a staff volleyball team and possibly a pickleball team, and will also host its first parent cooking classes that are open at no cost to FirstLine parents and family members this winter.
ESYNOLA's Health and Wellness programming is sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Newman's Own Foundation, and the LA Public Health Institute.
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Building Excitement at Arthur Ashe
Thanks to the support of two local funders, Arthur Ashe Charter School will soon have an outdoor classroom and greenhouse! The Ruth U. Fertel Foundation have pledged $100,000 to build Ashe's outdoor classroom, and the Emeril Lagasse Foundation have pledged $92,000 to build the greenhouse. ESYNOLA is so grateful to all of the champions who help us create garden facilities in five schools in New Orleans.
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SAVE THE DATE
March 27, 2014
ESYNOLA's fifth annual fundraiser event, "An Edible Evening," will take place at Green Charter School on Thursday, March 27, 2014. "An Edible Evening" promises fabulous food, great beverages, and music by local and international talent. All proceeds directly support our garden, kitchen, and wellness programming. Become a Sponsor or just purchase Your Tickets Early!
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ESY Kids Say the Darnedest Things...
to Their Parents
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"My kindergartener told me, `No Mama, we can't buy that juice because it doesn't say 100%. My teacher says it has to say 1-0-0'." - Arthur Ashe parent
"He said, `I have to have real potatoes to make this dish.' It was kind of embarrassing because I am the grandma. I should have been telling him that." - Ashe grandparent
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