Today was awesome! We started out our morning volunteering at Grow Dat, a youth farm in New Orleans. After that we entered data and then went to see the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. I had never seen live jazz before and it was such a fun experience! &nb…
Today we visited a nonprofit organization called Grow Dat. This program creates opportunities for youth in the Louisiana area to experience real responsibilities of having a job, while also providing a useful service to the public. The following positions are available through the program: Grow Dat Youth-The farm aims to create a healthy and supportive work […]
Today we volunteered at Grow Dat which is a farm dedicated to growing organic food and helping the youth of the area by giving them jobs. Some of their food is sold to restaurants around town which is really cool. My job today was to pull weeds out of growing gardens as well as laying […]
Yesterday we woke up to a beautiful morning sky, ate our breakfast and headed out to tour the plantation with the owner Foster. He told us the history of the buildings and how most of them have been moved from different locations onyo the plantation. We stayed in the old plantation house (it was thrilling […]
We had the most amazing experience listening to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. It’s one thing to experience the music but another to be born into it, and watching this band perform was absolutely amazing and it showed me that difference. I absolutely loved watching the orchestra play tonight.
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 […]
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 Ker…
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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