April 4th was a great day! The lowernine.org crew was joined by the All Souls group from Washington D.C. for the dedication of our warehouse.  All Souls had donated the funds for us to purchase this gutted home on the corner of El Dorado and Gordon, kitty corner to our main office and volunteer house. It is currently being used as warehouse and storage space for our rebuilding materials. In the future, we hope to use it as a base for a Tool Lending Library in order to give homeowners a place to cheaply borrow tools to do their own home maintenance!

Infinite thanks to everyone from All Souls who made this possible! You’re AWESOME!

Swing by the Sankofa Farmers Market every Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm to buy fresh and local produce from our farm.

We are currently selling okra, basil, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, mustard greens, and more!

Last Sunday, lowernine.org hosted the first shindig of a long series of shindigs at the Lamanche Urban Farm.

Please join us every last Sunday of the month at 6pm at our farm on Lamanche street, between Galvez and Miro.

Today is the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. A ceremony was held in the Lower Ninth Ward to remember the disaster.  Pictured above is Councilman Jon Johnson at the ceremony, throwing a commemorative wreath into the Mississippi.

Six years later, lowernine.org is still rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward.

We still need your help.

lowernine.org launched a kickstarter project today ! We have 30 days to reach a $4.000 donation. To help us is really easy ! Click on the image bellow, then click on “back this project”–then follow the instructions ! Thank you

HELLO FRIENDS OF LOWERNINE.ORG,

The good folks at CITGO are giving away $120,000 in Gas Gift Cards in 2011 for their Fueling Good Program. They’ll award 24 charities throughout the year with a gift of a $5,000 Gas Card, and we’re registered with the hope of being one of them. But we need your help to win.

Just think of how much good we could bring to our
community every day with an entire year’s supply of fuel.

Thanks for your vote!

“The Lower Ninth Ward was 98% African-American with one of the highest rates of African-American home ownership in the nation. Today it is abandoned fields that have been contaminated by oil and waste water. This shot is of a flower from thelowernine.orggardens. Behind the flower you can see the empty fields that used to be house on top of house as far as the eye could see.“

Sean Howard, photographer

This picture has been taken by Sean Howard in June 2011, in the Lamanche community garden of lowernine.org. $10 from every print sold will be donated to lowernine.org and the farm.  For more information, click to this link. To discover more of Sean Howard’s work, visit his flickr photostream.

Kyle Rizzo volunteered with us for a week in December 2010. Inspired by his experience with us, he successfully run 26.20 miles in the Pasadena Marathon on May 15, and, thanks to his sponsors, raised more than $1.000 to lowernine.org!

Thanks a lot Kyle, we really appreciate your help!