{"id":1689,"date":"2019-11-26T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/?page_id=1689"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:23:08","slug":"sweet-potato-fest-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/sweet-potato-fest-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Fest 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;4\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1684 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0608-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3204\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0608-copy-1.jpg 3204w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0608-copy-1-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0608-copy-1-768x828.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0608-copy-1-949x1024.jpg 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3204px) 100vw, 3204px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A giant paper mach\u00e9 sweet potato with googly eyes carried in a parade<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweet potato biscuits and muffins, handmade by K-8 students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While harvesting sweet potatoes, children find creatures who thrive in the habitat of the sweet potato vines: butterflies, frogs, legless lizards, and field mice<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the kinds of joyful associations with local food made at our 7th Annual Sweet Potato Fest at Arthur Ashe Charter School, one of ESYNOLA\u2019s biggest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/about\/family-events\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">family events.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1682 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0233-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0233-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0233-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0233-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/>Families, neighbors, and friends of Edible Schoolyard New Orleans enjoyed a parade, harvest, and fun activities all in the name of the sweet potato on Saturday, October 26, 2019. Together, they <\/span><b>harvested 432 lbs of sweet potatoes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the school garden, and festers ingested or took home another 600 pounds of potatoes donated from the Louisiana Sweet Potato Commission and Whole Foods Market Broad St.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ashe Aces Marching Unit led the Sweet Potato Fest parade around the neighborhood. In the Professional Sweet Potato Cook-off, Addis NOLA, Alligator Pear, Chef Alicia Scott, Chartwells, and Mosquito Supper Club served up innovative sweet potato dishes. In the Family Cook-off, a home chef\u2019s African-inspired sweet potato greens took center stage. We had sweet potato smoothies, sack races by GirlTrek, hands-on activities by NOLA_CODE and the Crescent City Farmers Market, a West African dance performance, and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a way, Sweet Potato Fest is all about sweet potatoes, but it&#8217;s about way more than that.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1680 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0225-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0225-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0225-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0225-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>Celebrating a crop like sweet potatoes helps children connect to the seasons, how food grows, and the natural world. It brings families into the garden to make their own connections with what&#8217;s growing and living there. It showcases local farmers and chefs, and it starts conversations about agricultural and culinary family traditions. It\u2019s an excuse for healthy exercise in the outdoors, and it builds a strong school community through collaboration and service. But to be clear, Sweet Potato Fest is mostly about joy &#8212; the wholesome and simple joy of getting your hands in the dirt and dancing in the street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special thanks to volunteers from Dillard University, the groups Ordinary People and Minority Association of Pre-Health Students from Xavier University, and to all the individual volunteers who help make Sweet Potato Fest not only possible, but very special.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1686&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1683&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1685&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1681&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esynola.org\/about\/news\/\">READ MORE ESYNOLA NEWS<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;4\/6&#8243;][vc_column_text] A giant paper mach\u00e9 sweet potato with googly eyes carried in a parade Sweet potato biscuits and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esynola.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}