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St. Helena Island represents one of the few remaining vital rural communities in Beaufort County. Much of the historic farmland in the area has yielded to economic pressures – preserving this land, tradition and culture is critical to turning this tide. Preservation of small farms, promotion of sustainable agriculture techniques, and passing on a value for the land to future generations are just a few of the accomplishments of Marshview Community Organic Farm. Marshview was the first Community Supported Agriculture in Beaufort County, and is still the only organic CSA.
How would it affect South Carolina?
Marshview has been in Sara Reynold’s family for over a century. She serves as an example of how an individual with limited resources can garner a network of community support to make a small farm financially sustainable. Marshview also distinguishes itself from other CSA’s with a program to teach young people on St. Helena the value of farming, and along the way a little about running a business and how to cook healthy local meals (Gullah style!)
What can you do about it?
Participants in the Marshview CSA – either as shareholders or just volunteers – connect to the seasons of their food. They learn what makes or breaks a harvest, when it makes sense to eat eggplant, how to preserve food in order to eat local through the winter and most of all, what real food tastes like. Marshview depends on the active participants of its members and friends – buy a share or just join the email list as a friend.
- Active protected farmland on St. Helena.
- Environmentally sustainable farming practices modeled for other farms in the community.
- Food that does not demand high levels of fuel for transport, water waste and does not pose a risk of contaminants to our waterways.
- Future generations that will carry on this sustainable tradition of farming and eating.
- Loss of farm land is very hard to reverse -- the small farmers are the most important. Industrial scale farming is unsustainable and detrimental on a multitude of levels. A loss of small farms in a rural area is a loss of a way of life.
- We have already lost a personal connection to land for food through our nation’s entrenched culture of grocery-store grown food. Losing small farms has been a big part of this trend.
