Upcoming Events

Kim’s Marsh Sweep

May 18 • 9:30 AM • Corinne Jones

Join us for a marsh cleanup along Halsey Creek! We’ll be meeting at Corinne Jones for a brief introduction from our friend Kim Thomas! Kim has an art show at Park Circle Gallery for the month of June, with an artist talk June 8 at 1pm and a closing reception June 28th. She mentioned she needed some marsh trash for the show, so naturally we figured we could clean up some creek!

After the clean up Kim will give us a brief demonstration in monoprinting some of our favorite pieces of litter, so you can leave with your very own print!

Please RSVP, as we are limiting this clean up to 30 lucky artists.

Coffee will be provided by our lovely friends at Sightsee. Please bring your own reusable mug, otherwise we’ll have compostable ones available!

Historic Marker Unveiling/BLOCK PARTY!

June 7 • 6-8 PM • 10th Ave between Gordon and Winyah Alley

We’re excited to announce a little something, something that has been in the works for over a year! Maybe two?

In partnership with The Preservation Society of Charleston we are pleased to inform you of and invite you to a community celebration for the installation of a new State Historic Marker for Gibbes Landing on Halsey Creek. We hope you will join us for the marker dedication and unveiling, followed by a block party with local food trucks! Vendors will be announced soon!

The
M.A.R.S.H.
Project

The M.A.R.S.H. Project is a grassroots and community-based program working to revitalize and advocate for the unique marshland ecosystems in Charleston, South Carolina.

(Insert pluff mud here!)

We started T.M.P. as a personal project among three friends. We wanted to see if we could revitalize and steward one-acre of marsh on the peninsula. We were all new-ish parents at the time and wanted our little ones to experience this with us. After hosting a cleanup of the area, which drew out about 50 volunteers, we realized our community was itching for more restorative efforts.


We are proud to share that, as of April 2023, we have become a program of the Carolina Ocean Alliance, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. With their help, T.M.P. is working to ecologically revitalize their neighborhoods through volunteer efforts – cleaning up debris, planting native plant species, citizen-science monitoring, and community and educational outreach.

  • Our mission is to help to rewild and ecologically restore Charleston’s unique saltmarsh ecosystem.

    We believe humans are part of a larger living community that collectively enables life. As members of this living system, our goal is to create more life with our own, contributing generously through reciprocal acts of stewardship and the thoughtful ecological restoration of our living landscapes.

    We acknowledge the interconnectedness of all life and seek to increase its overall abundance.

  • The marsh rewards the patient observer. Living near Halsey Creek, T.M.P. fell in love with their neighborhood waterway and began to understand its significance— its vibrant ecology, fascinating history and the delight in just squishing about the pluff.

    Halsey Creek, located in the neighborhood of Wagener Terrace, has both great ecological value and historical significance. Residents of Charleston are surrounded by a vibrant and dynamic salt marsh ecosystem—one of the most productive ecosystems in the world. Our marshes mitigate storm surge and sea level rise, host a phenomenal amount of life, cleanse upstream water before it empties into the ocean, and provide habitat for an untold number of birds migrating along the Atlantic Flyway.