Fighting Hurricanes & Pests, New Farmers Find Help in LSU AgCenter Program

By Kyle Peveto

LSU AgCenter

Three years ago, Tara Sanchez and Eddie Cortez bought an abandoned trailer park outside New Orleans.

The weed-choked shells of old mobile homes remained on the overgrown acreage, a 100-foot-wide parcel that stretched more than a mile to a bayou.

When they saw the overgrown property in northern Plaquemines Parish, they envisioned a farm with beehives, berry bushes, olive trees and a greenhouse full of cucumbers.

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