NOFFN and Urban Farming in CityBusiness

"Jeanette Bell, who once taught business classes to high school students, sees a money-making opportunity in her second calling. But for the 65-year-old retiree, her motive is more passion than profit.

Bell has built a garden on a once-blighted Central City lot that she bought from the city in 2003. At the time, the Baronne Street property was so overgrown with vegetation, it resembled something out of South America, Bell said.

Now, visitors are greeted at the entrance by a rose garden sorted according to color in the French style. The back of the lot houses Bell's vegetables and herbs, all organically grown, including a large bay tree she describes as "big enough to service all the restaurants in the Uptown area."

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