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How To Grow Sweetgrass In Your Yard For All Its Unique Benefits & History
Robin Wall Kimmerer shared this piece of wisdom in her book "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants." The author, a botanist and Potowatami tribe ...
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Development has become a threat to this Gullah tradition. Here's how a Lowcountry group is helping.
Corey Alston greets visitors at his stall while he's weaves together a Lowcountry specialty — a sweetgrass basket. He points out all the materials he uses to carefully create them. He's ...
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South Carolina sweetgrass basket workshop highlights Gullah heritage, endangered Lowcountry craft
On Saturday, the first day of February and the first day of Black History Month, over at the Riverbanks Botanical Garden, people of all ages showed up for a sweetgrass basket-making class ...