BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge woman inspired by a Los Angeles non-profit food program is working to start one in the capital area.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Natalie Flores-Blackner founded Nourish LA and connected thousands of families to food that would have gone to waste in Los Angeles. Flores-Blackner said she saw the need to start the program after seeing families face hunger. It grew rapidly, eventually catching the eye of Jasmine Jones in Baton Rouge.
“I found Natalie’s Nourish LA video on YouTube at like 11 o’clock at night. I’m in my bed, I start yelling at my husband. I’m like ‘This is what the Lord has been showing us. This is what Baton Rouge, Louisiana needs to do,’” Jones said…