They're working to plant as much sweetgrass as they can on the conservancy’s preserved properties on Betsy Kerrison Parkway so the Gullah Geechee can come and take what they need at any time. So ...

The Corps planted 3600 sweetgrass plants on Folly Beach in 2005. Engineers say the grass blades and root system of sweetgrass helps trap the sand. Because it was a success on Folly Beach, they also ...

Various Native American tribes have used the sweetgrass plant, a species common throughout large swaths of the United States and Canada, to repel insects for hundreds of years or longer.