2011 Sunflower Project

In a pilot pro­gram, three vacant lots in Old South Baton Rouge were trans­formed with col­or­ful sun­flower plant­i­ngs as a com­mu­ni­ty revi­tal­iza­tion tool imple­ment­ed through a part­ner­ship with the Cen­ter for Plan­ning Excel­lence (CPEX) and the East Baton Rouge Rede­vel­op­ment Author­i­ty (RDA). Vol­un­teers plant­ed the three sites, and neigh­bor­hood groups were active­ly involved in the plant­i­ng, main­te­nance and harvest.