Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2019

41 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.ReadMPM.com feature 302 Coleman Boulevard - 29464 | 843.881.3333 | www. pagesokragr i l l . com | Page’s Okra Grill THERE , S A LOT TO L I KE AT PAGE , S ! 2019 BEST OF MT. PLEASANT MAGAZINE #1 Breakfast | #1 Brunch #1 Budget-Friendly Meal #1 Shrimp and Grits #2 Fried Chicken | #3 Food Truck #3 Place to Take an Out-of Town Guest L O C A L L O C A L F O L K S . Fo d f o r landfill cost and the fact that the county sells the compost that we provide them,” Dangerfield explained. Another teacher at Burke High School in Charleston has instituted a successful oyster reef restoration project with the help of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). In the fall of 2018, Peter Locher, a science teacher, and Benjamin Plants, a world geography teacher, set out to teach their students about the local environment and its unique needs. With the help of SCDNR, they took their students to an area of marshland in need of oyster reefs. “We obtained the seeds and harvested them at school. We watched them grow for several months, and, in April, we went back out to the marshland and planted them ourselves,” Locher said. “It was great to see the students so engaged in this project,” Locher continued. “They were out in the wild, and they were so committed in seeing these seeds successfully planted after they had worked on cultivating them for many months.” Photo courtesy of Nancy Platt/James B. Edwards. James B. Edwards students take part in a sporobolus (formerly called spartina) grass transplant at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bear’s Bluff National Fish Hatchery on Wadmalaw Island.