Heights author, Promenade gardener, returns to roots
South African Native Ellie Levinson Right At Home Digging Near Durban
She’s a Promenade Gardener gone global.
That’s Ellie Levinson, an avid volunteer in the green-thumb group, setting a shovel to the soil of her South African homeland in dramatic photos from a recent visit to loved ones.
The Brooklyn Heights author was weeding newly planted beds of native grasses at the home that her son Robbie and daughter-in-law Tracy are building in an “eco-estate” in Ballito, a coastal town north of Durban.