Edible Schoolyard New York

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 13, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,430,531

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Kitchen - kitchen classrooms provide students with the skills needed to adopt healthy eating behaviors. In the kitchen classroom, students cook together with freshly harvested produce from the edible schoolyard garden and eat a freshly prepared dish around a communal table. The kitchen curriculum includes nutrition education and cooking lessons that are standards based, and like the garden lessons, contain classroom extensions.

Activity 3

Program expansion - the program is expanding into several other areas. Integrating the garden and kitchen into the classroom curriculum expands students'overall educational experience. It influences and supports healthy food choices and raises student achievement. In collaboration with columbia university teachers college, edible schoolyard new york has developed a series of interdisciplinary, project-based lessons for each grade level from kindergarten to fifth grade. Through community programing, including community workdays, community farmstands, family cooking nights and a summer family program, they engage parents and the local community in the edible education students experience in the garden and kitchen classroom. Through strategic partnerships, the organization works to integrate more fresh fruits, vegetables and plant-based entrees into the cafeteria at each of the partner schools, with the goal of supporting system-wide implementation of these practices. In addition, a professional development program was launched during this fiscal year, training teachers, non-profit leaders and other interested parties in starting, managing and teaching from garden and kitchen classrooms in their own school environments. The expansion to ps 7 in east harlem, which encompasses middle school, has also meant an opportunity to expand curriculum programming to middle school.

Filer

EIN

27-1237249