{ Trustees’ Garden }

 From 1733 to 1748 Trustees’ Garden was set aside from Savannah as an experimental farm where peaches, rice, cotton, grapes, flax, hemp, indigo, olives, and the mulberry trees essential to silk culture, were grown. Silk was an early promise, and the town’s largest structure was the filature where the cocoons were unwound into silk thread. Queen Caroline was clothed in Georgia silk. However, large-scale silk production did not happen, so interest waned and the garden closed.

 Charles H. Morris revisioned the site of Trustees’ Garden and began plans to create a sustainable, organic garden project. Today, we grow vegetables and herbs to sell at our Market. We create our own compost with the vegetable scraps from local restaurants keeping that matter out of landfills.

If you are interested in renting part or all the of the Center, you can request a reservation, or please contact Tom Palmer at 912-443-3277 or email Tom at tpalmer@trusteesgarden.com, or call Kathy Kurazawa at 912-233-1281 or email Kathy at kathyk@morrismultimedia.com.