We took a tour of the farm at Our School at Blair Grocery. There are two greenhouses here. Jamie told us the growing season here is 10 months out of the year with July and August being the non-growing months! Unthinkable to us northeasterners - those are our prime growing months! Indeed there is a beautifully red and ripe tomato in the greenhouse and there are herbs and greens growing outside ready for harvest.
The area is desolate even though the lot sizes are rather typical of the fringes of urban centers (a little like Queens in terms of the development density - but that's where the similarity ends). There are so many vacant houses and abandoned lots around. It is mind boggling that the wound of Katrina are still so raw.
In contrast there are people all around at OSBG. Seven people live on site with several others who come to work during the day. There is another group of college students who are here this week to work at OSBG. They are staying elsewhere in the neighborhood. We are a group of a dozen, and will be experiencing communal living for a week - no special treatment for chaperons!
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