New Orleans native Jenga Mwendo isn’t trying to cover her old neighborhood in gardens, as some have jokingly claimed. Rather, she’s aiming to create green spaces for the Lower Ninth Ward to blossom and grow around. This fall the 33-year-old 蜜柚APP TogetherGreen fellow, a computer animator turned community organizer, will oversee the grand opening of the Guerilla Garden, a once-vacant lot that’s now a lush vegetable plot, and she’ll break ground on converting an empty house into a garden-centric lending library and educational resource center. What will grow in your gardens? That’s up to the gardeners. The space is available for people in the community to have their own plots and decide what they want to grow. Recently I’ve seen basil, some other herbs, and a couple of squash plants. We decided that the garden is organic; that’s really the only guideline. Who will tend the vegetables and care for the land? We have some pretty dedicated folks in the neighborhood. We had...