Nat Turner, a former New York City public-school teacher, moved to New
Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward on Thanksgiving Day, 2008. He didn’t know
anything about gardening — “I could barely keep a cactus alive” — but he
had a vision to start an urban farm that would be a vehicle for
educating and empowering the neighborhood’s youth. He’d been making
service trips to the Big Easy with students, but he wanted an
opportunity to dig deeper, literally and figuratively, into the city’s
revitalization...
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