Growing Home New Orleans
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans still houses to up to 70,000 vacant lots. Two years ago, however, the city put a plan into place to help residents revive their neighborhoods. The resulting Lot Next Door program, created by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA), offers homeowners the first right of refusal to purchase the vacant lots next to their own. What seals the deal for many is the opportunity to receive $10,000 off of the purchasing price if the buyer agrees to make basic landscape improvements--from building a fence to planting trees to installing rain gardens--through a subprogram known as Growing Home.
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Beautiful photography...captures a complex restorative project. Congratulations to all involved.
Wow, Abby! Beautiful work. Must be so fulfilling! I always knew...
You should grow sunflowers in that garden depending on where that is in new orleans. Some of the toxic chemicals from the hurricane wreckage is said to still be in the soil, the sunflower plants repair the soil.
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