Gloria Ward wanders around her colorful garden in Treme. Moving carefully between sections of different plants, some medicinal, some food, she fusses with fences knocked over by the strong winds of the past week and points out which plants need watering.
“ I haven’t been out here in a week because I’m just tired of all of it,” she said. “They have just killed my spirit. 78-years-old, and I gotta fight over a garden.”
Miss Gloria’s Garden is a community garden on Dumaine Street that offers a wide range of classes for New Orleans youth, from gardening and cooking to music and meditation. It is also a space that is open for artists in the neighborhood to use, and houses a nonprofit, Developing Young Entrepreneurs, which uses the arts to provide guidance and create potential job opportunities…