The Glaze: Nachie Braga, the man who turned Lexington’s broken places into a food forest

The Glaze: Nachie Braga, the man who turned Lexington’s broken places into a food forest

The Glaze is a Lexington Times column highlighting people who quietly do the unsexy civic work that makes this city function. This week: the permaculturalist who spent six years going to advisory boards nobody else wanted to attend, and then planted Kentucky’s largest public food forest on a Cardinal Valley floodplain the city had given up on. On a gray October afternoon in 2025, in a three-acre patch of Cardinal Valley where the houses on Kilru…