Jocelyn Raye Batiste

Jocelyn Raye Batiste

@jossfromgentilly

Community garden coordinator, porch plant rescuer, and occasional maker of very serious red beans in New Orleans. I’m into neighborhood mutual aid, native plants, old movies, live brass bands, myster...

Recent posts

Planning red beans for leftovers

The Best Pot of Red Beans Is Planned Around the Leftovers I made red beans on Sunday thinking we would have enough for dinner and maybe one lunch. This was optimistic math. There are now three containers in the refrigerator, one in the fre...

Choose a neighborhood garden workday task

I’m helping plan a small neighborhood garden workday, and I want to choose the kind of task that people will actually enjoy doing for an hour or two. Which one would you be most likely to sign up for?