urban farming

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans still has plenty of vacant lots, especially in the majority Black neighborhood of the Lower Ninth Ward. One artist has navigated a bureaucratic city program to reclaim her family’s land, with the help of her community.

The pandemic has hit the gardens of New Orleans.All over the city, people are renewing and doubling down on their gardening efforts, or planting and…

On this week's show, we hit the road to tour a variety of farms that do everything from growing fresh produce to raising colonies of honeybees. We begin…

On this week's show, we're looking at farming across the state and the Americas.We begin on the West Coast, with a tour of Gourmet Mushrooms in Sonoma…

The LSU AgCenter fosters agricultural, engineering and scientific programs across the state. On this week's Louisiana Eats!, we go across the state to…

It's a familiar sight for most of us here in New Orleans: neighborhood streets lined with beautiful old houses, friendly porches and, that's right...…

It’s getting harder to know exactly what’s in the food we buy. Many people are tired of grocery store ambiguities and are starting to grow their own food.…

Lessons about food, about sustainability and about community are taking root in urban farming plots across the city, and NOLA Green Roots is helping…