Q&A with About Harvest

We’re getting noticed! The Gullah Project‘s Director Denise McGill talks food and agriculture in this exclusive Q&A with About Harvest’s Nancy O’Mallon. About Harvest provides quality stories about food and agriculture in order to inform, entertain, and connect the public to the food that is on their plates.

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Capt. Joseph “Crip” Legree

Capt. Joseph “Crip” Legree is a lifelong resident of St. Helena Island. He only received a fifth-grade education. He once made his living as a net maker, a trade made obsolete by Chinese imports. He now drives his Cadillac as a sort of personal taxi, helping other senior citizens run errands in exchange for gas money.

Joseph "Crip" Legree, 87, has lived on St. Helena Island all his life.
Joseph “Crip” Legree, 87, has lived on St. Helena Island all his life. To learn more and see Legree’s full interview click the photograph above.

 

Sará Reynolds Green

Sará Reynolds Green, in pink, leads students as they transplant greens. From left are Green, Carolyn Durrance, Taylor Linyard, Jameah Moore, Zariah Green, Jameka Young, Janice Baker and Kalila Saunders.
Sará Reynolds Green, in pink, leads students as they transplant greens. From left are Green, Carolyn Durrance, Taylor Linyard, Jameah Moore, Zariah Green, Jameka Young, Janice Baker and Kalila Saunders.

 

“We’ve taught them how to plant, how to harvest, how to sell, because they’re apart of the customer relations in selling the produce, how to cook, and how to serve,” says Marshview Community Organic Farm’s founder Sará Reynolds Green. To learn more about the after-school program, watch the exclusive interview with Sará by clicking on the photograph.

James Bradley Jr.

“I only have one boat, this dock, and my wife’s sister helps us out sometimes, but business, me and my wife and son we run the business,” states James Bradley Sr.

Bron Singleton, left, and James Bradley, Jr., unload shrimp to put it on ice.
To view James Bradley Jr.’s complete album click the photograph above.