Community Garden brings community together after devastation of Hurricane Ida

Gardeners holding produce. Covington Community Garden volunteers are preparing to rebuild what was damaged by Hurricane Ida. Pictured are Tim Ellzey, the volunteer garden manger, LSU AgCenter family and consumer sciences regional coordinator Valerie Vincent, Covington Kids Garden Club member Jaiden Gifford, Pam McKay of Gods Unchanging Hand Feeding Ministry and AgCenter agent William Afton. (Photo by Valerie Vincent/LSU AgCenter)
By: Valerie Vincent COVINGTON–Just weeks after Hurricane Ida passed through southeast Louisiana, neighbors were working to help one another remove storm-downed trees, clean-up and make home repairs. LSU AgCenter family and consumer sciences regional coordinator Valerie Vincent said the community garden also brought residents together to assess the storm damage, clean-up and replant what was lost…

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