CRAFT by Under My Host® Issue No. 16 Made in America: Part I | Page 118

W W W. C R A F T BY U M H . C O M
It’s almost six in the morning on a sweltering June day in 2014, and my
husband, Scott, and I are pulling our car into Clemson Coastal Research
Farm just outside of Charleston, SC. The sky in the east is getting brighter
by the minute, and the 50 or so herons roosting in the massive oak tree by
the irrigation pond are stirring to the day.
In a region where the temper