SLU Student Enhances Farmers Market
Story by The Advocate
HAMMOND — As an undergraduate studying sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University, Ashton Herron became interested in environmental sociology — including the important role locally produced food could play in a community.
So when the opportunity to see what a local food system looks like from “seed to table,” Herron jumped at the opportunity to participate in an internship with Vintage Garden Farm, a program of ARC Enterprises in New Orleans.