We have been blessed to have had land passed down to us by our ancestors.

I'm holding a deed now is of my great grandfather, Robert Green, 1862 purchased 20 acres of land

for $15 and that land is the land that we are now farming on St Helena Island.

Saraw Reynolds Green is part owner of the Marshview Community Organic Farm on St Helena Island

in South Carolina.

She comes from a long line of farmers and generations of her family who have nurtured

the land and what grows from it.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, peanuts, sweet potatoes, cabbage, collard greens, string beans, peas, corn,

you name it.

Just up the road from the farm, Miss Green's husband Bill Green runs a restaurant called

Gullagrub.

The two of them together formed a culinary powerhouse representing the Gullagichi culture.

Well, the Gullagichi people are the people that came from various parts of Africa, mostly

West Africa, Central Africa, the lower part of it is all over.

Wherever the enslaved Africans came from, some of them landed here on St Helena Island.

They weren't able to communicate with each other because they were taking Africans from

different parts of Africa, different tribes.

The one part of the Gullagichi people is the development of a language and they developed

the Gullagichi language, which is a mixture of all the dialects that were here.

St Helena Island is part of the Gullagichi corridor which spans the Atlantic coast from

Florida to North Carolina.

The Gullagichi people are descendants of formerly enslaved people, mostly from West Africa,

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