UGA’s Cornelia Walker Bailey Program (CWBP) on Land, Sea and Agriculture is proud to partner with Mr. Stanley Walker as we launch our first event […]
07.29.2024
NOAA recommends collaborative oyster reef restoration project for funding
ATHENS, GA – A new project seeks to join Sapelo Island’s Saltwater Geechee community and public entities in a collaborative effort to reduce flooding through […]
02.19.2024
Oyster shells from Atlanta restaurants are helping save the Georgia coast
Since it began, Shell to Shore has partnered with Save Our Legacy Ourself helping to think about ongoing flooding issues on Sapelo Island and […]
12.11.2023
America’s Test Kitchen Podcast: The Lost Crops of Sapelo
“The Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is in a battle against time. Every year, storms, salt water, and construction threaten the land. But […]
07.21.2022
How to hold back the ocean
Making Contact’s reporter Claire Reynolds interviews coastal residents, activists, and scientists about responding to sea level rise on Sapelo Island and beyond. As climate change […]
12.08.2020
New York Times Article about Sapelo Sugarcane Project
Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk On the Georgia coast, Maurice Bailey is making sugar cane syrup as a way to […]
11.24.2020
Story in The Bitter Southerner that covers Sapelo Island Sugarcane Project
Story by SHANE MITCHELL | Photographs by RINNE ALLEN (excerpt from bottom of story) The next morning, before leaving on the ferry, Maurice Bailey handed […]
10.21.2020
Article in Georgia Farmers and Consumer Market Bulletin about Sapelo Sugarcane Project
Sugarcane is the foundation of efforts to preserve, revitalize Geechee culture on Sapelo Island By Amy Carter amy.carter@agr.georgia.gov Sapelo Island was the epicenter of early […]
09.29.2020
Scalawag article by Maurice Bailey and Nik Heynen: Sweet (and sticky) redemption
Gullah/Geechee of Sapelo Island reclaim sugarcane to fight cultural erasure There is no U.S. agricultural history without the expertise and labor of African people who […]
11.05.2019
Success in the Sugarcane Fields: A Look into This Year’s Harvest
Last week, volunteers associated with the Cornelia Walker Bailey Program participated in the harvesting of sugarcane in conjunction with the Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization […]