Living Roadways Sponsor Spotlight: Todd Graves & Raising Cane’s – 10+ years of support!

Rais­ing Cane’s has been a gen­er­ous part­ner to Baton Rouge Green for over 10 years, hav­ing con­tributed near­ly $50,000 in event and Liv­ing Road­ways spon­sor­ships. Founder/​CEO Todd Graves is a true tree lover and Baton Rouge boost­er! Todd and his wife Gwen even co-chaired and served as Mas­ters of Cer­e­monies two con­sec­u­tive years for our pre­vi­ous fundrais­ing gala, Green Par­adise. In 2018, Todd dou­bled down and added three new Liv­ing Road­ways sites to their annu­al con­tri­bu­tions to Baton Rouge Green. We can’t thank them enough for plant­i­ng it for­ward! ONE LOVE!

We had three ques­tions for the gre­gar­i­ous Founder:

Why does Rais­ing Cane’s choose to sup­port Baton Rouge Green and Liv­ing Roadways?

Rais­ing Cane’s first got involved with Baton Rouge Green in 2007 because I tru­ly believe in what they do to beau­ti­fy Baton Rouge. I grew up here and over the years, there has been so much growth and devel­op­ment. While that’s great, we’ve lost a lot of our tree cov­er and nat­ur­al beau­ty. Baton Rouge Green has an impor­tant role sus­tain­ing our com­mu­ni­ty trees and green spaces.

What’s your favorite type of tree?

A live oak — its strength and beau­ti­fy is unri­valed. Live Oaks make me think of LSU and Baton Rouge so they sym­bol­ize home for me.

Do you have a spe­cial mem­o­ry of a par­tic­u­lar tree or a for­est expe­ri­ence that you would be will­ing to share?

In 2015, our fam­i­ly was fea­tured on Ani­mal Planet’s Tree­house Mas­ters as Pete Nel­son built a three sto­ry 1200 square foot tree­house on our prop­er­ty. It was incred­i­ble expe­ri­ence but the best part about it is get­ting to spend time in the tree. It’s an entire­ly dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive being in the tree­tops. I love to relax and even work up there. It’s a spe­cial place. (pic­tured above)

THANK YOU RAIS­ING CANE’S AND TODD & GWEN GRAVES!