THE STORY OF ROSALIE’S GARDEN

Rosalie’s Garden was born from both remembrance and longing, From a desire to protect the stories, practices, and relationships that shaped generations of Black life on Wadmalaw Island before they disappear under the pressures of displacement, development, and cultural erasure. Named after her great-grandmother, Rosalie Legare Grimball, the project honors the ordinary Black lives that carried extraordinary wisdom through faith, land stewardship, education, storytelling, farming, caregiving, and collective survival.

What began as a personal journey to reconnect with family history has grown into an evolving community-rooted practice of storytelling, cultural preservation, land stewardship, and intergenerational learning. Through programs like Memory Keepers, community archives, filmmaking, photography, and future land-based initiatives, Rosalie’s Garden seeks to create space for Black communities - particularly young people - to remember where they come from, recognize the brilliance of their people, and carry those lessons into the future.