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Gullah/Geechee Get Your Life! Honoring Our Roots on St. Helena Island
On Saturday, October 24, 2026, from 9 a.m. to noon, Earth People Farm, Soil Stewards, and the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition will come together for “Gullah/Geechee Get Your Life!” in celebration of Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Awareness Month. Hosted on St. Helena Island, the epicenter of Gullah/Geechee culture, this gathering invites us to celebrate our heritage through the work of tending the land.
Healin We @GullahGeechee from Roots to Rest
These women all held my hands in theirs and transferred energy that protected, healed, and uplifted simultaneously. Each of these hands had pronounced veins that seemed to mimic the roots of the herbs that they had gathered from beneath the well rooted trees in the wilderness of the islands along mountainsides. I reflected on our flat land of the Lowcountry and the journey into the woods and around the yards with my mother whose hands are like theirs and can touch that which can nourish you in a way that is unforgettable and sustaining.
GAWD dun smile pun disya ooman! Tenk GAWD fa de healin e bring!

