Crops for a Friend

By: Ashley Hollett and Morgan Plummer

One of the missions of CSUCI’s NOLA Service Learning experience is to help local communities combat food insecurities in surrounding neighborhoods. With the aid of student volunteers and faculty, we were able to plant a variety of crops on the Carol property in Buras, Louisiana. The process included tilling the land, establishing a canal around the plot and planting various crops including tomatoes, herbs, melons, watermelon, pumpkin, corn, cucumber, eggplant and marigold as an insect repellant.

Tilled plot