Introducing…the Lower 9’s New Landscape Resource Depot!

Check out these photos from the Landscape Resource Depot Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on October 15, 2009. The new Depot is located at 1742 Deslonde Avenue.

Community Beyond Housing is a collaborative project that focuses on landscape as part of the recovery and rebuilding of the Lower Ninth Ward Community. Together, the groups involved in the project are planting 30 rainwater and urban gardens in the Lower 9th Ward to create green and public meeting places and to help reduce street flooding.  The Landscape Resource Depot has been built as both a gathering place and a distribution point for plants and landscape materials for the entire community. 

The Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development (CSED), the Make It Right Foundation, the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture and the University of Colorado Denver Department of Landscape Architecture, Walter Hood of Hood Design and landscape architect Jane Wolff are all collaborating on the Community Beyond Housing project supported by a grant from the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (LDRF).

(left) Jenga Mwendo w/ daughter Azana & Wendell Thompson (right) Colleen Morgan of Bayou Rebirth & Tom Pepper of Common Ground
(left) Rev. Gilbert Scie, Henry Irvin & Warrenetta Banks (right) Charles Allen of CSED & Tom Darden of Make It Right
(left) Zakenya Perry of Make It Right (right) Mack McClendon of The Village

ALL PHOTOS: Kathy Muse