Chicora Place Community Garden

Chicora-Place Community Garden is a demonstration garden and social space in the Chicora-Cherokee community. Anyone who lives, works or plays in North Charleston is welcome to harvest produce as it ripens. Volunteer workdays occur every second Saturday from 9 am until noon.

The City of North Charleston purchased the former trailer park with Greenbelt Tax Funds to create a recreation space in the Chicora-Cherokee community. After receiving a $1,000 grant from the Healthy North Charleston (funded by the ACHIEVE Healthy Communities), Metanoia received permission to turn a portion of the space into a garden in 2011. Germaine Jenkins (Fresh Future Farm CEO) was a Metanoia Board Member and a Clemson Extension Master Gardener and resident garden volunteer. Metanoia has sponsored programming for the community garden since its 2011 start. In 2017, they awarded a $23,000 grant to support Fresh Future Farm’s efforts to manage the garden.