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Partners from the Ground Up: New Orleans Town Gardeners
As Edible Schoolyard New Orleans (ESYNOLA) celebrates its 19th anniversary, we are thrilled to highlight, elevate, and express our deep gratitude for a very special partner: New Orleans Town Gardeners (NOTG). Without NOTG’s unwavering support and partnership, ESYNOLA would not be thriving across FirstLine’s four school campuses.
NOTG has been a vital partner since the inception of ESYNOLA in 2006, but their history began even earlier, in 1998, with PropaGators gardening classes at New Orleans Charter Middle School (NOCMS)–the precursor to FirstLine Schools. The PropaGators classes, which cultivated both the soil and the enthusiasm of students, laid the groundwork for the nationally acclaimed ESYNOLA program–an inspiring first replication of the program founded by chef and activist Alice Waters in Berkeley, Ca.
