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well, the rockin' blue love machine made it to New Orleans, and immediately died- or hopefully, just took a temporary vacation.


It is amazing how much the city is still impacted some 3+ yrs since Katrina.  Lot's of changes. So many of the people we meet are from out of town, recent immigrants from the north, and yet there are still 50,000 plus original residents not here.... very interesting. Some significant demographic changes underway. Today we visited Common Ground. They sure have done alot for the community, starting with emergency food and medical aid after katrina, and since then work rebuilding houses, free legal aid, wetland restoration and so much more. A great organization that was rewarded for all this good work with attacks from the FBI.  What a country! 
http://www.commongroundrelief.org/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/us/05informant.html
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/02/18557859.php


Before we got here, we stopped in western NC and visited with founding SLSA members Kristin and David who are hard at work with their hazelnut experiment. Next stop was Athens Georgia where we visited with some of the folks at Athens Community Land Trust. They are more or less a "full service" land trust, doing work in affordable housing, land conservation, and farmland work. We didn't stay long, but it seems that their efforts as of yet with farm protection are still dealing with existing farmers and PDR's, though the issues of affordability are starting to affect them as well.


We  hope to continue our adventures on the road next week, but still have some mechanical work to do. Off to the salvage yards!



 


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