We spent the night at Woodlands Plantation and in the morning had a tour of the grounds. We learned that the house we stayed in is the one featured in the Southern Comfort whiskey label. After a delicious breakfast, we had a tour of the grounds, learned some history, and fed some alligators.
In the evening we enjoyed the Chinese Lights festival in the New Orleans botanical gardens.
Thursday morning we woke up and had breakfast at the Woodlands Plantation and got a tour of the Plantation grounds, including an opportunity to witness the alligators getting fed.
In the evening we went to watch Kermit Ruffins perform. We also got to see a Chinese Lantern display at the New Orleans City Park.
Wednesday night we stayed at the Woodland Plantation, and it was ideal. After a day of planting a garden from scratch, coming to this place was better than any of us could imagine.
The Main House
The Porch
On Tuesday we went to a place called Capstone, located in the lower 9th ward of Louisiana. The lower 9th ward was one of the most dramatically damaged places after Katrina, and there is a very serious problem concerning food availability there because of that damage. The existence of a farm in a place like this would be special on its own, but what makes this place even more special is that all the produce grown here is grown through a process called aquaculture.
Greenhouse at Capstone
Foundation of a House in the Lower 9th Ward
It’s amazing and really inspiring, actually, to see the ways in which New Orleans citizens have answered back to such devastation.
We spent the morning at Woodland Plantation, where we got a tour of the facilities from the owner, Foster. He told us about the history of the land and buildings on it. It was such a neat place, and I think I can speak for the whole class in saying that I wish we could have stayed longer!
Today has probably been the best day in New Orleans so far. It was a beautiful rainy day and we all got to see really big alligators up close and personal. We then attended an event here in NOLA known as China Lights and finished off the day by attending an awesome jazz club,eating beignets and drinking hot chocolate.
This morning we woke up at the Woodland Plantation. Foster, the owner, gave us a tour of the property and took us to feed the resident alligators. The rest of the day was thunder and lightning, so we ate lunch, made our way to the hotel, then went to the New Orleans Chinese Lights Exhibit. It was a relaxing and beautiful day.
Our field work continued on Monday after we finished our first trail.
Sometimes, especially in the field, you do what needs to be done in order to identify plant species.
Today we fed alligators and helped a environmental and historical activist restore a gazebo. Next we went the Chinese lights festival and saw light art in a botanical garden, there we also saw plate spinners, jugglers and the art of face changing.We also we to a zydeco concert which was excellent.
Sunday March 20th my brother and I took all of my nieces and nephews out to Ventura Point to work on the Ventura Surfrider Dune restoration project.
The learned about Ecosystem based management of the point and the native and non-native plants in the dunes. At Ventura point we have seen a large difference in the loss of beach between the area where the dune project is in effect and about 200 feet south along the boardwalk.
Where the restoration project is located much of the beach has remained intact and south of there (seen in the photo to the right) most of the sand is gone and damage has been done to the walkways during the large storms this winter.
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