An Epic Hoe-Down!

Our work today at the Acorn Farm was pretty epic. 

Owner Wade Rathke and founder of ACORN is a resident driven to serve his New Orleans community. The all-organic farm provides affordable produce to the NOLA community every other Saturday. Many urban areas like those in New Orleans become Food Deserts in the aftermath of devastating events and circumstances; however, the Acorn Farm is a small yet effective way to counter this issue. Our task was to clean up the garden for spring planting. We dug holes for new trees, mowed overgrown grass, cleared fences, and wacked weeds. 

After all the hard work, I felt an overwhelming sense of pride in our group. This year, only about 20% of residents of the Lower Ninth Ward have returned to NOLA. The Acorn Farm may be small, but it makes a difference by turning land destroyed by Hurricane Katrina into nutritional value. Our Oglethorpe group is also small, but we also made a difference today at the farm. I'm proud of our team. We worked together, motivated one another, and succeeded the Ogle way!

-Christal Hayes