Edible Schoolyard NYC

Spread the word: Edible Schoolyard NYC is now accepting applications for the second year of our Seed-to-Table Fellowship! Educators of NYC Public School students can apply for a grant of $8,150 and a year of intensive support for their school to build out or expand garden and cooking programming. Visit https://lnkd.in/ePxXSkMx to learn more and apply - applications are due 9/24/24!

We had so much fun with our friends from NEST New York amongst the sunflowers in our school garden at Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School! They helped us give the garden beds some fresh coats of paint to get the garden ready for the students as the new school year quickly approaches. We love how bright and welcoming the garden looks after all their hard work - thank you so much for all your efforts! Would your company or community group like to join us for a volunteer day in one of our school gardens? Contact Julia Balsam at [email protected] to get started!

We are so grateful to our friends from Davidson Kempner Capital Management, who spent a sunny day with us at P.S./M.S 7 in East Harlem helping us care for the street trees all around our school garden. Did you know that the trees on our streets in NYC help to keep us cool? They provide shade from the hot sun, and also release water vapor from their leaves, helping to cool the air around them. Helping plant and care for street trees to ensure adequate tree cover can cool a city block up to 10 degrees! Thank you to our volunteers for lending a hand with this important work!

We had the best time at this year's Evening of Culinary Connection, and we know a great celebration takes our entire ecosystem of supporters to really shine. We’re so grateful to our generous sponsors who made the night such a fun, flavorful success! Thank you to Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Isolation Proof Gin, Ten To One Rum, TALEA Beer Co., and San Pellegrino US for donating the wine, beer, spirits, and beverages for the evening, to Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc. for making the bites and dinner possible, and to Warby Parker and Select Equity Group, L.P. for joining us!

After a year of learning dozens of new chart types and deepening my understanding of the principles of effective data viz, I am thrilled to share that I have completed the Evergreen Data Viz Certification Program.?I have followed Stephanie Evergreen for YEARS and it was truly amazing to work with her as my data viz coach. I'm sharing one of my new favorite chart types here – a dot plot – highlighting evaluation findings from Edible Schoolyard NYC, an amazing organization that brings cooking and gardening to students in NYC.?

Sending a great big thank you to Ridgeline and their amazing employees for spending a day with us in the garden at P.S. 7 in East Harlem! They helped us get the garden ready for lots of spring exploration with our edible education students by giving all of our raised garden beds a fresh coat of paint for the bright season ahead. Would your team like to get their hands dirty in one of our school gardens? Contact Julia Balsam at?[email protected]?to learn more about volunteering today!

Summer is just around the corner, and our garden team is looking for support! We are hiring a part-time seasonal gardener to help care for our school garden at PS/MS 007 in East Harlem. Do you have experience interacting with students, maintaining garden spaces, and working on tasks independently? This may be your chance to get your hands in the dirt this summer! Apply for our Seasonal Gardener position here: https://lnkd.in/eSbJSu8M

What a great sunny day we had with Apollo Global Management, Inc. in our school garden at Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School in East New York! Apollo team members filled new planters with soil, added compost to raised beds, planted onions, and painted picnic tables to help us welcome spring into the schoolyard with our students. Thank you Apollo Opportunity Foundation for getting your hands dirty with us!

Thank you so much to volunteers from Select Equity Group, L.P. for spending the day with us in our school garden at P.S. 109 in the Bronx! Together, they built and installed new Vego Garden beds, added hardware cloth to the bottoms, filled each new bed with soil, and helped us build a new trellis. Our edible education students will be so thrilled with their new garden, and we are so grateful for all your support! Would your team like to get their hands dirty in one of our school gardens? Contact Julia Balsam at [email protected] to learn more about volunteering today!

"For me, an important part of using an equity lens is framing and context.?For example, contextualizing health inequities by highlighting the role of structural racism, wealth inequality, and policies like redlining and urban renewal in shaping our society and our neighborhoods—and therefore our food environments—serves to remind us that the inequities we see in our country didn’t just come out of nowhere." Our brilliant Evaluation Consultant Rachel Dannefer is an experienced public health evaluator and researcher, a CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute Fellow, and a PhD student at The City University of New York. She's also the key to unlocking our own understanding of the impact we are making and the potential we have to make even more positive change for students and school communities! Read more about Rachel, her equity lens, and her approach to evaluation in this interview from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute: https://lnkd.in/dW9iYuXF