
How Does Your Garden Grow? Unexpected Health Benefits of Gardening
It’s no secret that homegrown vegetables and fruits have superior nutritional value to their supermarket cousins. This is largely due to the fact that so much less time passes between the picking of the produce and the eating of it. There…

Make Change Happen
I love to volunteer. Why, you ask? My answer is always, why NOT? Why is volunteering so difficult for some people? Why not get involved and make the communities we live in better? Don’t wait to be directly asked to make…

Buy Local. Eat Fresh.
You know that at First South Bank, we are big fans of community and supporting our local economies. A great way to do this is by purchasing food items at your local farmer’s market. This has the added bonus of…

Support YOUR Community
Today, our blog comes from guest blogger, Catherine Glover, Director of the Washington Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce. We encourage everyone to become aware of the amazing local businesses in their own areas and support those businesses with your patronage!…

Great (& UnGreat) Expectations
I noticed recently on Facebook that many of my friends and friends of friends are registering their children for Kindergarten. And, sigh, the memories came flooding back. I walked this same path a couple of years ago… unbelievably, my daughter…