Posted by Save Rosebank Farms Stand on Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Four months after losing the lease on his Rosebank Farms Stand location to the town of Kiawah Island, Sidi Limehouse says he’s found a new stand space at 4362 Bohicket Road.
“We’ll be opening in about two weeks,” Limehouse says.
Last winter, The Post & Courier reported on the town of Kiawah Island’s plans to construct a new municipal complex at 4475 Betsy Kerrison Pkwy. — a location outside of Kiawah limits — forcing Limehouse to vacate the produce stand he’d been running for the past 19 years by Dec. 31, 2014. The plan had been decided during closed door sessions of Town Hall and immediately caused reactions from both Limehouse and his supporters.
“If they don’t want me to be there, I really don’t want to be there,” Limehouse said in a City Paper interview last October. “I don’t really know what I’m going to do yet. Fold up my tent and disappear.”
One group formed the Facebook group Save Rosebank Farms Stand creating a petition to request Limehouse be allowed to stay open for an additional calendar year. But, according to the page, that petition was denied by the Town of Kiawah at a town meeting on February 10, 2015.
Rather than pack it up completely though, Limehouse has found a new home, this one between two churches on John’s Island. And frequent shoppers will find the same seasonal goods the farmer has always carried — squash, tomatoes, onions, and eggs. “But we won’t have sunflowers this year,” he says. According to Limehouse, The Greenery, the subcontractor for the town of Kiawah, mowed them all down. “I talked to them about saving them,” Limehouse contends. “But when I came back they were all gone.”
The town of Kiawah denies this accusation. Kiawah’s Code Enforcement agent Rusty Lameo could not be reached for comment.
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