PARTNERSHIPS

Romney Urban Garden is a small urban garden located at the end of Romney Court in the Upper Neck of the peninsula. In 2014, with seed money provided by the Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF), the youth of New Israel Reformed Episcopal Church set out to rehabilitate a vacant lot owned by the church. Neighbors, church members, and HCF spent hours clearing the lot. The parks has been maintained through this partnership throughout the years.

CHS Hort joined the partnership in 2020 to ensure the future of this important community asset by helping spearhead efforts for volunteer days for garden maintenance, future development and implementing garden educational programs.

In Summer 2021, CHS Hort facilitated and financed the design and installation of a new pollinator garden at RUG.

The Urban Farm at Enston Home is comprised of 60 raised garden beds, an outdoor farm stand and community pavilion. The site plan also includes a future greenhouse and ornamental gardens.

The farm will increase the Green Heart Project’s total fruit and vegetable production capacity from 2,000 lbs/year to 5,000 lbs/year. Produce will be donated to nearby schools and sold at affordable prices to residents and neighbors.

CHS Hort is pleased to contribute to The Green Heart Project partnership by designing and installing the circular ornamental garden at the heart of urban farm operation.

The circular garden plans were featured on our Fall Garden Tour in 2020 with plans for completion in February 2022, so please stop by 900 King Street and see this amazing project for yourself!

We are thrilled to partner with our neighbor, the St. Andrews School of Math & Science, to create a 620 square foot pollinator garden from a previously unused space on the school’s grounds.

Designed by CHS Hort Board Member Claudia McNab Design, the garden relies heavily on low maintenance natives to attract a wide variety of pollinators. The garden will be incorporated into the school’s science and arts programs as well as offer students a quiet place during the school day. The school plans to establish a garden club to help maintain the garden during the school year.

Thank you to the Mark Elliott Motley Foundation and The Scotts Miracle Grow GroMoreGood Grassroots Grant for providing funding towards the installation of this garden and to Soil3 for their generous donation of topsoil.

CHS Hort began a partnership with our friends at Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding (CATR) in fall of 2019 by providing trained garden volunteers to work with school children with disabilities at the area’s only nationally accredited therapeutic horseback riding center.

CHS Hort volunteers work alongside CATR staff and school therapists helping students to interact with hands on garden-related sensory activities in the program’s raised garden beds in rotating with their program’s therapeutic riding program.

The partnership is support by the Mark Elliot Motley Foundation.