UNC Asheville student and photographer George Etheredge recently had a photo essay on Pisgah View Apartment Community Peace Garden published in Modern Farmer. Etheredge spent a year volunteering and taking photos at the garden as part of his photography studies at UNCA.
From Modern Farmer
By George Etheredge
Excerpt:
After walking his kids to the school bus early in the morning, Sir Charles Gardner heads to the nearest corner store to buy a coffee and light up a Newport in preparation for a long day at work. Gardner is a native of Asheville, North Carolina, and a longtime resident of Pisgah View Apartments, the largest public housing development in all of western North Carolina.
In one corner of PVA, rusted fencing from a formerly neglected baseball field now encloses over an acre of green space, tilled into a garden in 2004. Pisgah View Peace Garden was started by a longtime resident of the Pisgah View Housing Projects, Bob White, and handed down to Gardner four years ago. The following year, Gardner hired Carl Elijah Johnson, Jr. The two men now oversee every aspect of the growing and harvesting process.
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