agriculture

The philanthropic arm of Wells Fargo is providing $600,000 to the South Carolina Research Authority to fund the Cultivating Innovation in SC Agribusiness grant program.

Cedar apple rust is a fungus, but its brown cases become jelly-like blobs with protrusions that look like something from outer space.

Cedar apple rust is a fungus, but its brown cases become jelly-like blobs with protrusions that look like something from outer space.

Our eastern red cedar is one of the junipers whose berries are used to flavor gin.

Our eastern red cedar is one of the junipers whose berries are used to flavor gin.

Native Americans used eastern red cedar for canoes and ceremonial buildings.

Native Americans used eastern red cedar for canoes and ceremonial buildings.

Before the ubiquitous Fraser firs that don’t grow well here, many people got an eastern red cedar.

Before the ubiquitous Fraser firs that don’t grow well here, many people got an eastern red cedar.

Eastern red cedar has long been used to line chests and closets to protect wool items.