It’s a frigid January day as Jacky Frazier looks over thousands of strawberry plants at his vegetable farm on St. Helena Island. A stocking cap covers his head but it’s unusual to see Frazier ...

Cal Hucks of Coosaw Farms walks between frozen rows of blueberries on St. Helena Island. The blueberry grower intentionally encased the plants with ice to protect them from freezing temperatures ...

Denuded, the island began suffering from erosion, while the plants that did thrive were often non-native. Less than 1% of St. Helena’s original ecosystems survived the centuries-long onslaught.

Instead, plants’ roots are submerged in nutrient-rich water and grown beneath LED lights. The container would be easy to miss while driving along the rural roads of St. Helena Island.

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean ... including 45 flowering plants and ferns. Microclimates that range from cool tropical forests to ...

Each spring, in March and April, Seaside and Lipman Family Farms, St. Helena Island’s two main commercial tomato growers, set tomato plants. They thrive in the area’s well-drained and loamy ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean ... including 45 flowering plants and ferns. Microclimates that range from cool tropical forests to ...

Moving at one mph, four men, sitting inches from thr gound being carried by a tractor, plant watermelon seedlings at Coosaw Farms on Feb. 25, 2025, on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. The ...

St. Helena Island growers are gearing up for the start ... to the 1,297 acres planted in Bamberg County. Beaufort County plants the second highest number of acres in watermelons.

We still plant rows of tomatoes ... and sustain the Gullah-Geechee communities that are so closely bound to St. Helena Island’s landscape. David Yoakley Mitchell is executive director of ...