The Healing Power of Garden Class

BY: DANIELLE DREILINGER, The Atlantic. Rahn Broady’s mission is to introduce New Orleans students to the magic of nature. Even a couch potato notices nature with the New Orleans teacher Rahn Broady. Walking in the Arthur Ashe Charter School garden in May, he plucked a blue feather off the ground. “There was a fight here,” he said. Maybe an owl ate a blue jay? He walked another few steps and, sure enough, found an owl pellet and a tiny bird hip bone. He beamed. “I try to influence the kids to be explorers, and I turn into a kid myself,” he said. READ MORE HERE.