With our ying yang weather, our citrus orchards are producing their fragrant flowers and the butterflies and honey bees are taking full advantage of the nectar in our Dauphine Community Garden. Meanwhile, across the neighborhood in our Butterfly Island on our Florida lots, the monarch butterfly caterpillar devours milkweed.
CSED has partnered with Tulane City Center to create an outdoor wetland education center on two of our lots at Florida & Caffin Avenues. The project aims to raise awareness of coastal restoration efforts by creating a K-12 environmental learning space that will include exhibits on local plants, outdoor classroom space, a bio swale and rain garden, and access to kayaks that will encourage hands-on learning directly adjacent to the Bayou Bienvenue Triangle. The existing cypress and red maple trees, the community orchard and the butterfly island will remain and be enhanced.
You can view the entire project plan at our office at 5130 Chartres Street or just stop by the site. As always, we welcome and value your comments as we "Sustain the Nine!"
We went with cellulose because of the price point. Half the price of blown-in fiberglass. But man cellulose is dusty. A dirty job for sure!
We did'nt have enough time to blow in insulation today. However, attic is prepped and ready. Bill Robinson was kind enough to stop by and share some of his knowledge. He suggested that we use blown in fiberglass instead of cellulose. 2'x4''s are for decking and for additional space for insulation. Stay tuned!
Work moves steady as Charles Reddick and Vincent Fedeli install sub-floor at The Center. Last week lead remediation on bargeboard walls was completed. Next steps: staining of barge board partition walls with Safe Coat water based polly - and installation of reclaimed T&G flooring.
Many thanks to James of Common Ground Reflief and to their volunteers who planted and mulched 1 pecan, 4 cypress, and 5 red maple trees on the CSED vacant lot at 5620 Florida Avenue. These volunteers came from near and far: New York, the College of New Jersey Alternative Break Club, the Share Institute from American River College in California, and the University of Mississippi. These hardworking young people continued their good works that day by planting trees in the Bayou Bienvenue Triangle. We are so very grateful that volunteers keep coming to offer their many hands in service to our community.
Founded in 2006, the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED) works to stimulate civic engagement, repopulate, sustain natural systems, assist community leadership and preserve resources in the Lower 9th Ward neighborhoods.
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Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable
Engagement & Development
5130 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
P: 504.324.9955
Executive Director
Arthur Johnson
Program Coordinator & Urban Farm Manager
Kathy Muse
Volunteer Coordinator
Warrenetta Banks
Energy Efficiency & Urban Farm Coordinator
Vincent Fedeli
Food Planning Coordinator
Jenga Mwendo
Wetland Specialist
John Taylor
Energy Efficiency Apprentice
Charles Reddick
Food Planning Organizer
Beverly Jackson
Bill Waiters, Chair, Lower Ninth Ward
Austin Allen, Louisiana State University
Antoinette Ackerson, Lower Ninth Ward
Calvin Alexander, Lower Ninth Ward
William Becker, E3G, Natural Capitalism Solutions
M. David Lee, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Stull and Lee Inc.
Dave Macaulay, Green ArchiTEXT
Darryl Malek-Wiley, Sierra Club
Greer Mendy, Tekrema Center for Art and Culture
Earthea Nance, Texas Southern University
J.W. Tatum, Lower Ninth Ward