{"id":3677,"date":"2013-12-05T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnof.org\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:20:41","slug":"dillard-community-development-wwno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/gnof\/dillard-community-development-wwno\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet China, Elizabeth, Sleepy, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday\u2019s Coop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/123414319&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chrisean Mitchell shows me around the community garden in back of her Gentilly school.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s Daisy\u2019s chicken coop, and over here is China, Elizabeth, Sleepy, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday\u2019s coops. Daisy has her own coop, because when chickens are in a group, they pick that one chicken that they\u2019re going to pick on, so Daisy has her own coop so she can kinda relax and not get beat on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrisean is in the fifth grade at Langston Hughes Academy, but her education in gardening has taken her all the way to college.\u00a0\u201cWhen we go to Dillard we learn about different things,\u201d says Daisy.\u00a0 \u201cWe up-pot, we learn about greenhouse effect.\u00a0 We learn about putting plants to germinate.\u00a0 And then we bring them back to our garden and put them in the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nick Harris is director of community development relations at Dillard University, \u201cThe Kids are learning all about fresh fruit and vegetables.\u00a0 And the reason for this is because this part of Gentilly was known as a food dessert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with their partners, like Chrisean\u2019s school, Langston Hughes, Dillard\u2019s Community Development arm is working to combat obesity, poor nutrition, and bad eating habits all over Gentilly.\u00a0\u201cThe kids come to Dillard University to learn about Botany and Biology from our students in Botany and Biology,\u201d says Harris. \u201cWe have a greenhouse so we start the seeding process at Dillard. Once they get to a certain height or maturity, we bring them back over to Langston and we plant them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learning they are!\u00a0 I, for one, had no idea what up-potting meant, but Chrisean explained it,\u00a0\u201cUp-pot means we take it from a small, itty-bitty pot and then we move it to a big pot,\u201d she says. \u00a0&#8220;We do that so it can have more to grow. So it can be at least in a germination station when you move it into the ground so it can grow more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Harris, from Dillard, says in this partnership, everyone wins.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s giving our students more exposure to the community, and giving young kids in an urban community exposure to a college campus to let them know what the next step is in life,&#8221; explains Harris.\u00a0 \u201cAnd then by them coming to a college campus, taking a science lab class, that adds to the excitement of what\u2019s ahead of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But most importantly, this program educates young people about healthier foods.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s very important for the young people to learn the importance of good nutrition. And eventually it fights current chronic diseases.\u00a0 This is is all a preventative measure and educational at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All this gardening and botany and talk of vegetables seems to be working.\u00a0Chrisean Mitchell explains: \u201cWell I started eating salads because they were really good. And they had stuff in there I never tried, but when I tried it, I liked it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrisean Mitchell says spinach is her favorite salad ingredient.\u00a0 Her mom\u2019s been making it.\u00a0 She wants to stay healthy too.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Dillard University&#8217;s <a title=\"Dillard CDC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dillardcdc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Community Development Corporation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Eve Abrams for the Community IMPACT Series and produced by WWNO in partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrisean Mitchell shows me around the community garden in back of her Gentilly school.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s Daisy\u2019s chicken coop, and over here is China, Elizabeth, Sleepy, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday\u2019s coops. 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