The
Hatcher Garden and Woodlands Preserve is a 10 acre greeenspace situated in a residential area of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Harold and Josephine Hatcher started developing the land in 1969 after they retired. Over 30 years they worked with the red clay land once dominated by cotton fields. The soil was robbed of its fertility and eroded into deep gullies. Trash and weeds covered the ground
The Hatchers were not wealthy landowners. They were limited in resources, but not in creative vision. They raised money for their project by buying and self-renovating adjacent properties for rental income.
When they gave the Garden to the Spartanburg community in perpetuity, what they gave was their life savings.
What a wonderful legacy.
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