Lowcountry Cuisine Summer/Fall 2019

www.LowcountryCuisineMag.com | www.MountPleasantRestaurant.com | www.CharlestonRecipes.com lowcountry cuisine Legare siblings established the Legare Farms Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to educate local children about farm life — goats, cows, and how chickens lay eggs. Lastly, and perhaps even more unexpected than the water buffalo next to the rent-a-chicks, we drove past the largest open field, which is set to host a new electronic dance music (EDM) and arts camping festival called Lights in the Forest soon after my visit. It’s good rent money, they’ve hired a cleanup crew and the animals will likely just retreat to the other side of the wide farm, said Legare-Floyd. EDM aside, this farm has been watching the island around it slowly shift for decades now. “People come and say, ‘We live in Shoreline Farms, do you know it?’ Yeah! We used to plant soybeans on it,” chuckled Legare-Floyd. “The John’s Island Airport — they call it the Charleston Executive Airport now. …We used to rent the land between the runways there to grow most of our sod.” As you drive out the Legare Farms’ gate, with its tiny “South Carolina Century Farm” sign, and off the property that the Legare family has farmed for generations, you’ll drive about half a mile on a dirt road until you hit State Road S-10-91. After witnessing the life and land of one of those impossible-to-pronounce and impossible-to- replicate old Charleston names, it doesn’t seem like quite enough time to prepare yourself for reentry into a world of grocery stores. F THE LOWCOUNTRY IS FULL OF AMAZING RESTAURANTS AND CHEFS BE SOCIAL JOIN US AS WE TELL THEIR STORIES @lccuisinemag @lccuisine To be apart of our social media pages and publication, contact [email protected] or call 843-345-7012