Places We Visited in 2005

Rowland Alston talks with Clemson Agent, Amanda McNultly and they discuss southern decorating for the Thanksgiving Holiday.   She uses a variety of fruits and vegetables to create a nice centerpiece.

11-08-05
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Rowland visits with Cathy Penson at Lake Wylie SC.   Cathy has developed a wheel chair accessible garden open to the public.  She gives Rowland a tour of the garden and provides some useful gardening tips.

Rowland Alston visits with Bruce Knight who is the chief of the National Resource Conservation Service.  They discuss the new grassland Reserve program.  The purpose of the Grassland Reserve Program is to keep land and native grasses and to preserve land for many generations to come.

Rowland Alston visits with Pati English to discusses how to make cane bottom chairs and baskets.  Pati is trying to preserve history and to educate people and pass the art onto the next generation.

Team Making IT Grow visits with sports turf management expert, Alan Wilson with Wilson and Associates. They discuss correct fertilization practices and controlling weeds properly.

Rowland Alston visits Oakview elementary to discuss their Butterfly Garden.  Oakview Elementary along with the South Carolina Wildlife Federation have a program where the kids in school grow plants and learn how to preserve natural habitats.

Team Making It Grow visits McLeod Farms in McBee, SC.  Rowland Alston visits with Gaie McLeod to discuss to uses and the different products that can be made from peaches, such as peach salsa, peach barbeque sauce, and peach bread.

Team Making It Grow goes to visit a land grant farm in Darlington county to speak with Ben Williamson as they talk about the wide variety of trees on the farm

08-09-05

SC Gov. Mansion

Rowland Alston visits the historic gardens at the Governor's mansion with the superintendent of gardens Mike Lee.  They discuss the various gardens and the history that is behind each garden.

08-02-05
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Palmetto Pigeon Plant

Rowland Alston visits with Tony Barwick at Palmetto Pigeon plant to discuss they different types of pigeons and how to prepare and cook them.

07-26-05

Low County Sertoma Club, Walterboro

Team Making It Grow goes to Walterboro South Carolina to visit with Lawton Huggins of the Low Country Sertoma Club.  They discuss different ways to eat and prepare wild game from SC.

07-19-05

Amporn, Elloree

Rowland Alston visits Amporn Appleby and her Thai cuisine restaurant as they discuss her gardens that are at the restaurant and her Thai food.

07-12-05

Congaree land Trust

The Congaree Land Trust is trying to preserve natural resources and pristine properties for future generations.  Rowland Alston visits Buckeye Farms in lower Richland County is set aside for many generations to come.

06-22-05

Elloree Museum

06-21-05
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Park Seed, greenwood

06-14-05
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Hydroponic Garden

Team Making It Grow travels to just above Chesnee, SC to visit Dan Bostic and his hydroponics greenhouse garden.  Hydroponics gardening is growing vegetables or fruit in a water solution instead of soil.

05-31-05

Old Santee Canal Park

Once Again Team Making It Grow visits Old Santee Canal State Park, but this time to discuss their children's Environmental Bay.  This is a place that has events that educates children in Berkley County.

05-24-05

Cross Garden Center , Charleston

Rowland Alston visits Cross Garden Center in West Ashley.  Cross Garden Center is a low country independent Garden Center that contributes to the Professionalism in the horticultural Industry.

05-17-05

Brookgreen Gardens

05-10-05

Historical LoLu Foundation

Rowland goes on a tour of David Hillburn's Home and Garden. David Hillburn brought Charleston homes to downtown Columbia and gardens to Columbia SC.  

04-26-05

SCNLA

04-05-05

SCLTA

03-29-05

Coastal Carnivorous Plants

03-22-05
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Pam Rowland - Wreath Making

Rowland Alston meets with Try County Tech professor Pam Rowland, as they discuss how to make dried flower wreaths

03-15-05

Palmetto Pigeon Plant, Sumter

02-15-05

Legare Farms

01-25-05
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Colemon Williams, Greenwood

Team Making It Grow visits the unusual Garden of Coleman Williams, just outside the city of Greenwood, SC.  This garden was made by bulldozing and surrounds an Italian style home, 

01-18-05

Tommy Marshall 2

Once again Team Making It Grow visits with Tommy MArshall of Camden Landscaping to discuss his water gardens.  Tommy MArshall is putting his advanced water gardens in old historic homes.

01-11-05

Jim Lunkin 1, USC Coastal

Team Making It Grow visits a Carnivorous plant garden in Conway, SC.  Carnivorous plants have adapted a way to extract nutrients from insects rather than the soil, and they thrive in a low nutrient environment.  Dr. Jim Luken who is a professor at Coastal Carolina takes Rowland on a tour of his garden in his back yard.