Growing Home has a green agenda as well. "It's woven into the program in a subtle way to help push people to a more sustainable future," Feldman says, noting the incorporation of water-harvesting and composting systems in the list of credited projects. Of the approximately 70,000 vacant lots in New Orleans, 10,000 have been sold to NORA to be rehabilitated by buyers. NORA and Feldman hope that of those properties, 3,500 will end up enrolled with Growing Home. "People are just chomping at the bit to do the work, the only thing slowing them down is getting to close the sale," Feldman says. So though not everything is simple in the Big Easy, there are certainly those who are working to restore it to its former glory. Photo 2 of 5 in Edible Urban Gardens Good Enough to Eat by Heather Corcoran from Growing Home New Orleans

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Growing Home has a green agenda as well. "It's woven into the program in a subtle way to help push people to a more sustainable future," Feldman says, noting the incorporation of water-harvesting and composting systems in the list of credited projects. Of the approximately 70,000 vacant lots in New Orleans, 10,000 have been sold to NORA to be rehabilitated by buyers. NORA and Feldman hope that of those properties, 3,500 will end up enrolled with Growing Home. "People are just chomping at the bit to do the work, the only thing slowing them down is getting to close the sale," Feldman says. So though not everything is simple in the Big Easy, there are certainly those who are working to restore it to its former glory.