Educator wins for garden that 'is about sustaining life'

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After a hard day's work, few of us want to come home and spend our leisure hours consumed in the same labor.

Rahn Broady does just that.

An educator and lead gardener for Edible Schoolyard New Orleans who spends his work days helping city children build and tend gardens, Broady relishes the time he gets to spend working in the yard of his 1426 Touro St. home. That passion for gardening paid off: He won second place in the Jazzin' Up the Neighborhood gardening contest sponsored by NOLA.com ' The Times-Picayune, the LSU AgCenter and the Metro Area Horticulture Foundation.

"It's something I love to do. I never get tired of what I do," Broady said. "Having my hands in the ground helps me to ground myself.