Sun City Sun September 20, 2022

Sept. 20, 2022 • SECTION SC Volume 25, I­ ssue 18

Farmers Gotta Farm See page 6SC

At Okatie Farm Club’s West Gardens, John Yannet, left, listens as Glen Carnrick shares some gardening ideas.

PHOTO BY TOM MILLS

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Popularity of Okatie Farm Club grows with each season

By Katherine Mace

were created with 226 new 10-foot by 20-foot plots.

“We like to have people start with the smaller gardens while they learn the challenges,” Carnrick said. “There is a learning curve. Members help each other know what to plant when. There are lots of master gardeners in our club.”

In 2013, 26 additional 10-foot by 20foot gardens were created to make the Andover Gardens.

There are now 306 gardens, and 563 members. Some members share plots.

There is a waiting list of 31 residents awaiting a garden space.

Five club plots are designated as Community Gardens. Volunteers care for these, harvest them weekly, and donate the produce to Bluffton Self Help. Thousands of pounds of veggies are given each year from the Community Gardens and people’s own gardens.

Carnrick and John Yannet moved to

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“I like to grow food, and I like to give food away,” said Jim Urbanic at the Okatie Farm Club’s West Gardens in Sun City, where he is a relative newcomer.

He is in his third year as a farmer (their preferred moniker) and his peppers are flourishing.

Glen Carnrick, the club’s president, described the history. The East Gardens, across Sun City Boulevard from the West Gardens, were started in 1999. The first 54 gardens were 20 feet by 25 feet each.

One can’t help but notice that they are under power lines. The land is owned

by Dominion Energy, which defines the construction parameters, including height restrictions (there can be no trees planted). Sun City is granted an easement.

With the rapid development of Sun City, demand for the gardens increased dramatically. In 2007, the West Gardens

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Mike Kirwan, known as the “club schmoozer,” has been gardening in Sun City for 18 years.

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Sept. 20, 2022 FARMERS from page 6SC Sun City at the same time in 2007 and have been dedicated to the Okatie Gardens ever since. They both have always gardened. Carnrick said he grew tomatoes and went door-to-door to sell them as a kid. Yannet said he grew cucumbers in his front yard in the 1940s. He would come home from school to work in the garden.

The Okatie Farm Club members collaborate and cooperate. Carnrick and Yannet explained the processes that are comprehensive and very supportive of the members.

Piles of free mulch (from tree companies that work in Sun City) line the fence row, along with club-owned wheelbarrows, rakes and shovels. The farmers have access to water that is from the same system used by the ballfield and golf courses.

The club provides bulk ordering of straw, Black Kow manure, and even lumber, so that it can be delivered. They have twice yearly plant sales for members only.

There also is a monthly inspection of the gardens to see if any of the farmers are in need of help.

Then, there are the bees for pollination! The club has an active beehive and three experienced beekeepers to tend it.

Jennifer and John Duhamel moved here from Rhode Island where they had a couple of hives in their yard. They alternate weekly hive-care with Sheryl Cress, who was a beekeeper in Ohio.

They all said that keeping bees is different everywhere you go. The weather is different and the dangers to the hives are different, the plants from which they get nectar are different. One constant, however, is varroa mites, which are perennial pests.

Cress described part of the process bees use to care for their hives. “They are pristinely clean. They clean all the time. They even clean each other off,” she said. “And, they make propolis (mixing bee saliva, bee’s wax, and compounds from various plants and trees) to help protect the hive. It is antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal!”

Additionally, “Bees know their beekeeper,” Cress said. “Mine used to find me on the property, and just buzz

around me.”

Unlike conditions up north, there is a year-round growing season in the Lowcountry, and there are always farmers in the gardens. According to Carnrick, “The summer months – July and August – are the most challenging here.”

Carnrick said currently, the club’s farmers are preparing for cooler weather.

“We’re about to plant winter crops,” he said. “People are now making repairs and recovering their gardens.”

Early in the morning, late in the evening, under the blistering sun and even in the pouring rain, there are happy, enthusiastic and dedicated farmers, who are eager to talk about their gardens.

The official club schmoozer, according to Carnrick, is Mike Kirwan, a gent from Ireland via Pueblo, Colorado. He has been gardening in Sun City for 18 years.

He was checking on his tomato crop.

Brand new farmer Tom Moseley just got his garden and is busy refurbishing it. He plans to plant spinach, bok choy, cauliflower, broccoli and tomatoes. “It isn’t about the food,” he said. “It’s about creating something.”

Todd Wilson was a tobacco farmer from Boone County, Kentucky. He’s trying his hand with hydroponic gardening.

Urbanic is excited about the coming season. “I’m going to plant Vidalia onions, cabbage and maybe some radishes,” he said. “I took the master gardening class, but mostly we learn from each other … and we teach ourselves.”

The Okatie Farmers are inspiring, productive and fun to be with. To join the club and get on the waiting list for a garden, email okatiefarmclub@hotmail. com.

Katherine Mace is a writer who lives in Sun City.

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Thoughts on best practices for water conservation

By David W. Smith CONTRIBUTOR

Next to the air we breathe, water is the single most essential ingredient in our lives.

All living things require it. We can survive only about three days without drinking it.

Growing and preparing food requires water. We depend on water for showering, laundry, cleaning, caring for pets – it’s a vital component of daily life.

Taking water for granted here in the Lowcountry is easy because it’s all around us. But only a very small percentage of all that water is potable – safe to drink.

Saltwater makes up 97% of the Earth’s water. Most of the remaining 3% that is freshwater is not available, as it is underground or in glaciers, icecaps, lakes and rivers.

The Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority (BJWSA) is a critical component of Sun City life. It’s hard to imagine the SCHH lifestyle being possible without its services. It processes and supplies our homes’ drinking water and much of the community’s irriga-

tion water. The stormwater lagoons provide some of the water to the three golf courses. BJSWA also manages the community’s wastewater.

BJSWA provides these services for many other neighboring communities and has recently asked for everyone’s help in managing our water. This request comes as the tourist and growing seasons put higher demands on the water supply during peak hours. High demands can cause reduced water pressure and low levels in storage tanks, which can affect not only our homes but also fire hydrant function.

BJWSA asks all its customers to adhere to the following irrigation schedule: • No watering Mondays (highest demand day) • No watering from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. (highest demand hours) • Even-numbered addresses irrigate Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays • Odd-numbered addresses irrigate Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays As I bike or walk before 9 a.m., I pass nu-

merous homes that haven’t yet adopted this schedule, even seeing several spraying some of their water onto driveways and streets.

Our automated irrigation systems make following the recommendation easy. If someone doesn’t know how to adjust their system, irrigation specialists or most landscapers can easily adjust systems to this schedule.

They can also adjust the sprinklers to direct the spray onto the lawn and beds.

Our Centipede grass requires much less water than many of us are accustomed to.

Adjusting watering to run longer and less often encourages root growth. Installing a rain sensor can save water and money.

Here are some other easy ways to conserve water: • Run only full loads in dish and clothes washers • Don’t run the tap while brushing teeth or shaving • Use commercial car washes, as they recycle their water • Shorten your shower time • Install rain barrels to capture water that will otherwise go down the drain; use this water for watering the lawn and plants For more ideas on conserving water, get the BJWSA Eye On Water app to monitor your usage and possible leaks.

Water is a precious commodity; we all should use it wisely.

David W. Smith is a member of the Environmental Action Group of Sun City Hilton Head.

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Men seem to blossom in retirement, while their women age

By Chris Roosa CONTRIBUTOR

My husband took an early retirement.

We looked forward to returning to the sunny city of Houston from the cold dreary state of Michigan. Twelve years of feeding horses on those sub-zero mornings, with a frozen water trough and frozen horse whiskers, had done me in.

I was counting the days until our return to Southern warmth and sunshine.

The first year of my husband’s retirement was spent with him reading the newspaper out in the courtyard. I, on the other hand, was cleaning a large home, tending to the horses, weeding, doing laundry, cooking, bathing the dogs, decorating, and an assortment of other tasks to keep me busy during HIS retirement.

I didn’t leave the house much, as I felt it was my duty to be with my retired man.

I had forgotten how intense the summer heat, along with 98% humidity, drained one.

When we had lived there before, we had a pool and I had a bikini body. Some 13 years later there was no refreshing swimming hole in the backyard and certainly not that once-trim figure. It’s amazing just how hot an extra 40 pounds can feel.

I would work in the yard early to avoid the heat of the day. Hubby rose from bed about 9 a.m., retrieved his newspaper and parked his retired lark in the courtyard.

Every now and then he’d ask me how my weeding was coming along, or he might even make a suggestion as to another project I might want to incorporate into my morning tasks.

If I was washing the cars, the retired man would help by pointing out a spot I might have missed. So thoughtful!

My sweetie was a picky eater and I had established, a long time prior, that I hated cooking. Yet, one day I spent hours fussing over a new recipe. I served up the enticing meal and was immediately informed that he wasn’t going to eat it.

Could I fix something else?

I got out my best china and placed it in front of Mr. Picky with a can of Alpo dog food centered. And, of course, a cloth napkin.

Later on, we moved to this lovely retirement community in South Carolina. Needless to say, I was still cooking, cleaning, weeding and the like. However, there were plenty of activities I could get involved with once I got my chores done.

But a whole new world opened up to the retired men of Sun City. Golf three times a week, tennis, pickleball, biking, exercise at the gym, an assortment of pools and a wonderful wood shop.

Some men even took lunch and spent five days a week playing “carpenter” while their women were home doing tasks or preparing his evening dinner. Life got even better for the man in his retirement.

Women – we don’t retire. There will always be laundry to wash, meals to prepare, a house to clean. As we age, we’re not as efficient as we once were, but golf seems to have no limits for the aging man.

I can only hope that when they light that fire under my coffin, the undertaker yells out, “RETIRED!” Chris Roosa is a resident of Sun City Hilton Head.

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