{"id":5611,"date":"2015-05-11T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2015-05-12T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T15:31:28","slug":"edible-schoolyard-teaches-seed-to-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/edible-schoolyard-teaches-seed-to-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Schoolyard Teaches Seed To Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/205020479&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nEdible Schoolyard New Orleans works to empower generations of New Orleans children to build and maintain healthy relationships with food, the natural world, themselves and their community.<\/p>\n<p>Stefin Pasternak, is the lead chef educator at Samuel L Green Charter School, home of one of Edible Schoolyard\u2019s two teaching kitchens, and one of their five school gardens. He directs two students to set the table for a communal meal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys work together to set out plates,\u201d assigns Pasternak. \u201cWe need 10 plates please. Nathan and Damiri, can guys will do cups and water. Will you do ten napkins? And will you 10 forks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking with fourth graders about the idea of preparing from seed to table by making tater-tachos,\u201d he tells me.<\/p>\n<p>What, you might ask, are tater-tachos?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, tater-tachos are part nachos, part tater-tots,\u201d explains Logan Livermore, a fourth grader at Green. That means this is Livermore\u2019s fifth year learning about food, cooking, gardening, taste, and communal eating \u2013 in school. The Edible School Yard\u2019s curriculum starts in kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn kindergarten we do what\u2019s called the food ABC\u2019s,\u201d explains Pasternak. \u201cIt\u2019s not cooking at all. It\u2019s mostly about exposure to foods. Manners, hygiene, and just the process of really savoring and tasting foods completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kindergarteners learn about and taste foods for each letter of the alphabet. And they spend time talking about it, understanding it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s comparing them,\u201d says Pasternak, \u201cand identifying where we might know them from, new foods especially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First graders learn about the federally mandated food plate and what makes a healthy diet. Second graders learn about nutrients, vitamins, and fiber and which foods have what. Third grade explores international cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo today we ate Middle Eastern food,\u201d explains Pasternak. \u201cWe made dolmades &#8212; stuffed grape leaves \u2013 with grape leaves from our arbor that the kids preserved last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And fourth graders, like Logan Livermore, explore what it means to make things from scratch, really from scratch: seed to table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things we did is try to teach the beauty of eating a meal in community,&#8221; says Claudia Baker, Executive Director of Edible Schoolyard New Orleans. \u201cSo many families these days don\u2019t have time to sit down together every night at 6 o\u2019clock and have dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baker says the entire relationship to food, community, and healthy eating is what Edible Schoolyard fosters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as important as learning about where the food comes from and how to cook, is learning how to enjoy it in community,\u201d says Baker. \u201cIt\u2019s about passing plates, waiting until everyone is served, expressing gratitude for the people who prepared the food and where it came from, and enjoying it together with your friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are wonderful,\u201d declares Jose Chavarria. \u201cThey taste like potato and nacho all mixed together, and it tastes real good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I ask if this is something Jose could make on his own, and he responds: \u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s likely because, through Edible Schoolyard, Jose Chavarria has a lot of experience cooking. And as a fourth grader, he also knows exactly where the tater tot came from. A potato! he declares. \u201cFirst it was in the farm, then it was in the truck, then it was in the store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As students get older, they learn more of a pre-professional culinary curriculum. Michael Riley, who\u2019s in 8th grade, was harvesting collard greens and dinosaur kale in the Edible Schoolyard garden, just outside the teaching kitchen. I asked if he likes to eat every thing that he grows?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d says Michael, \u201cbecause when you buy something from the grocery store, you don\u2019t know how far it traveled, but you can pick it right from the garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The garden is a lush third of an acre, and Michael\u2019s class was busy making bundles of parsley, Swiss chard, and curly kale as well as harvesting cabbages. Each month they sell their produce at the Farmers\u2019 Market inside the French Market. The students rotate garden jobs everyday. Today Michael\u2019s the time keeper, but yesterday he was the boss. I asked which job he likes better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boss because I like to make sure everyone is doing their job and it helps me for future reference at a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael says helping people and communicating with people are skills he\u2019ll use no matter what his future work is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Learn more about <a title=\"Edible Schoolyard New Orleans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esynola.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edible Schoolyard New Orleans<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edible Schoolyard New Orleans works to empower generations of New Orleans children to build and maintain healthy relationships with food, the natural world, themselves and their community. 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