Clemson Univesity Cooperative Extension Service

Across South Carolina, gardeners and farmers are searching for food security solutions from small-scale farms to hospital campus gardens.

It may be that fireflies first started glowing to warn off predators that they contain a toxin and taste horrible.

It may be that fireflies first started glowing to warn off predators that they contain a toxin and taste horrible.

Once you discover the natural phenomena of our diverse state ecosystems, your world gets wider and wider without leaving home.

Once you discover the natural phenomena of our diverse state ecosystems, your world gets wider and wider without leaving home.

When I was young, we had lots of fireflies in our Columbia backyard in the summer. But when we went to camp or my grandparent’s summer retreat in Saluda, North Carolina, the numbers seemed exponentially greater.

When I was young, we had lots of fireflies in our Columbia backyard in the summer. But when we went to camp or my grandparent’s summer retreat in Saluda, North Carolina, the numbers seemed exponentially greater.

Agent Carmen Ketron, recently on our SCETV program Making It Grow, told us she’d seen the synchronous firefly display at the Congaree National Park. This phenomenon occurs at the end of May or early June for about two weeks every year.

Our state and nation owe Harry Hampton a great debt for his love of wildlife and years of work promoting that the Beidler Tract not be logged but instead preserved as what is now the Congaree National Park.

Our state and nation owe Harry Hampton a great debt for his love of wildlife and years of work promoting that the Beidler Tract not be logged but instead preserved as what is now the Congaree National Park.