Rowland Alston and 30 years of Making It Grow

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Making It Grow celebrated thirty years of being on air with SCETV this year; the show was developed and hosted for much of that time by Rowland Alston, a Clemson Extension agent and son of an agent. Rowland came by his knowledge of agriculture honestly, his father’s family were farmers near Alston’s home in Rembert.. Unlike today’s helicopter kids, Alston didn’t play sports after school, instead he worked on the farm. One of his chores was taking each day’s picking of cotton to the ginning mill, guiding the mule pulling the cotton wagon. After waiting for the cotton to be unloaded, he returned home in the dark with a flashlight, no headlamps on that wagon. The agricultural labor revolution in the south has happened in the lifetime of many.