Birding 101

Bird watching is an international hobby, with 51.3 million participants in North America alone. Close to 1000 bird species can be observed in North America and over 200 have been […]

SoCal Meets Nashville

Southern California Meets Nashville in Levon The Music The first time Levon played Palmetto Bluff, they recall tossing around pinecones the size of footballs on the lawn at Field + […]

Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets Creations

Michael Smalls and his right-hand man Dino Badger stopped by the Conservancy Classroom to teach us more about one of our favorite pieces of art with a rich Lowcountry history […]

Artist in Residence | Asha Gomez

Chef, author and global food advocate Asha Gomez is passionate about using food as a platform to connect people across countries and cultures. Her cookbook My Two Souths was a […]

2019 Artist in Residence

Artist in Residence is a collaboration between Garden & Gun and Palmetto Bluff that celebrates the arts, fosters creativity and offers a hands-on education. The third annual program invites notable […]

History of Hospitality

Centered around history, etiquette, gatherings and some sort of delicious Southern food, hospitality at Palmetto Bluff thrives. From the Wilson Era to the Union Camp era, and now present day, […]

Living Primitive

Dallas, North Carolina, is a sleepy town of a few thousand people between Gastonia and Charlotte. In 1977, it didn’t have much. But what it did have was arrowheads – […]

A Different Kind of Lowcountry Boil

Every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, the extended Rahn family gathers with friends, significant others, and a random acquaintance or two around a massive cast-iron kettle watching cane juice […]

The Farm / Part 3

Palmetto Bluff’s Farm Vision Aspirationally, the plan for Palmetto Bluff always included a farm. We knew that as this place evolved, we would set aside land for farmed agricultural plots […]

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