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Newsletter, Fall 2013
What's Growing On in OurGardens?
Dill CilantroFennelParsleyRadishTurnipCollard GreensMustard GreensCabbageKalePeas
Come plant with us in 2014at our
Open Garden Days!
Aeroponics Program
At Iron Chef a few weeks ago, a woman watched her5th grade daughter fillet a fish. She said, "This program gives kids all kinds of differentopportunities. My daughter has really beenenjoying her new cooking skills, so this year, I'mgraduating her to Season Chopper for theholidays!"
In This Issue
What's Growin' On?
Watermelon Day
Food Day
Sweet Potato Fest
Wellness Update
An Edible Evening
ESY Kids Say the DarnedestThings
Building Excitementat Arthur Ashe
Thanks to the support of twolocal funders, Arthur AsheCharter School will soonhave an outdoor classroomand greenhouse! The RuthU. Fertel Foundation have
at Joseph S. Clark
In a small, triangular spacebehind a chain-link fence atJoseph S. Clark PreparatoryHigh School where therewas once only weeds, fiveaeroponic gardening towersare teeming with life. Clark'sSeed-to-Table class seededthe towers early this fall,and participate in weeklyscience-based lessons onseasonal growing andcooking. Clark students arenow seeing the results, withtowers of lettuce and herbs,which make for goodcooking and eating!
Goats GaloreLangston Hughes Academynow has three goats: amama, her baby, and apigmy goat. This little fella,Donkey, loves to jump andclimb on things! Keep upwith the goats onLHA's Dreamkeeper Blog
ESYNOLA Receives USDA
Two fifth-graders and Juan's Flying Burrito serve judges abacon & shrimp taco with satsuma slaw, black beans andcoconut rice at Arthur Ashe's first Iron Chef competition.
The secret ingredient was satsuma.
Your gifts create these opportunities.
THANK YOUfor including ESYNOLA
in your year-end charitable giving!
Fall Highlights
Watermelon Day Watermelon Day at three FirstLine Schools featured localfarmers from the Indian Springs Farmer Cooperative, melontastings, and activities like this relay race at Samuel J.Green Charter School, in which students rolled watermelons
pledged $100,000 to buildAshe's outdoor classroom,and the Emeril LagasseFoundation have pledged$92,000 to build thegreenhouse. ESYNOLA isso grateful to all ofthe champions who help uscreate garden facilities infive schools in NewOrleans.
An Edible Evening!
SAVE THE DATEMarch 27, 2014
ESYNOLA's fifth annualfundraiser event, "An EdibleEvening," will take place atGreen Charter School onThursday, March 27, 2014."An Edible Evening"promises fabulous food,great beverages, and musicby local and internationaltalent. All proceeds directlysupport our garden, kitchen,and wellness programming.Become a Sponsor or justpurchase Your TicketsEarly!
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Stamp of Approval
Edible Schoolyard NewOrleans is one of 71projects across 42 statesand the District of Columbiato receive support in 2014and 2015, through the U.S.Department of Agriculture's"Farm to School" program.The USDA's funding helpsconnect school cafeteriasand students with localfarmers and ranchers. ESYNOLA will use Farm toSchool funds to expand ourstudent education andfamily supported agricultureprograms, and to continueour work with TulaneUniversity's Schools ofMedicine and Public Healthto evaluate the impact ofEdible Schoolyard's 3,000daytime and afterschoolgardening and cookingclasses and special eventson the daily habits ofstudents and parents, whoare among the nation's mostvulnerable to malnutritionand chronic disease.
We would like to give a hearty
SHOUT OUTto all our interns & volunteers!
and answered trivia questions. Read more!
Food DayAt Langston HughesAcademy, Food Daycelebrated nutritionand localingredients.Organizations likeCrescent CityFarmer's Market,new Orleans FoodCooperative, andLPHI School HealthConnection joined school faculty and staff to show sixthgraders and their parents fun ways to eat healthy. Readmore!
Sweet Potato FestAt 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!
Health & Wellness
Now in its second year, FirstLine's comprehensiveschool wellness initiative offers school-based strategiesto improve the health outcomes of 2,808 studentsthrough school-based wellness committees, food andnutrition education, healthy school meals and snacks,increased opportunities for physical activities includingphysical education classes, recess and instant recess. --Clark's wellness committee sponsored and staffed asatsuma tasting and led a "smoothie" pilot, that will leadto smoothies becoming part of the Clark breakfast menuin 2014.
--LHA's wellness committee and ESY garden team haveconsistently led Wellness Wednesdays for staff,
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An Edible Evening
LHA students and their parentslearn how to make saladdressing at Food Day.
ESY Kids Say theDarnedest Things...
to Their Parents
"My kindergartener told me,`No Mama, we can't buy thatjuice because it doesn't say100%. My teacher says ithas to say 1-0-0'." - ArthurAshe parent
"He said, `I have to havereal potatoes to make thisdish.' It was kind ofembarrassing because I amthe grandma. I should havebeen telling him that." - Ashegrandparent
Thank you so much for yourcommitment and service!
including healthy snacks and mini-physical activities forteachers and staff. --Ashe hosted a Saints and Pelicans pep rally with theLouisiana Campaign for Tobacco-free Living, where 400kids signed pledges with their role models to livehealthy, tobacco-free lives. Ashe will host parentcooking classes in their ESY teaching kitchen for familymembers in January.
--Dibert hosted a middle school health and wellness daywith healthy snacks and lively line dancing with Lady D,and several planning sessions to envision the futuregarden for therapeutic, community engagement andenvironmental learning purposes at their new school sitein Treme next year. --Green staff is planning for a staff volleyball team andpossibly a pickleball team, and will also host its firstparent cooking classes that are open at no cost toFirstLine parents and family members this winter. ESYNOLA's Health and Wellness programming issponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Newman'sOwn Foundation, and the LA Public Health Institute.
Lester L'Hoste gave tours of hiscitrus grove to students from
Ashe and Green.
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