Farm & Field
At first glance, Rick Karney does not appear to be a farmer. He works on the water and is usually more damp than dirty.
But to watch him in...
Coffee grinds, apple cores and curly orange carrot peels: straight to the trash they go in most households. But on Island farms, these food scraps...
Julian Barbosa was raised on a farm where he learned to cook with vegetables grown in his backyard. When he moved to Martha’s Vineyard four...
The seeds are planted and the first hay harvested. Across the Island, farms are full of activity and, just as their farmers are busy with...
The road leading into Flat Point Farm in West Tisbury is surrounded by hay fields and on Friday afternoon the late-day sun brushed their tops...
As the story goes, the history of farming at Katama began in the first World War when Edgartown families planted army and navy beans deep in...
The Vineyard Conservation Society Winter Walks Program will feature a guided walk at Thimble Farm in Tisbury on Sunday, Jan. 13 at 1:30 pm....
About 24 years ago, a group of Vineyard gardeners with no place to garden began to brainstorm. The dilemma: how to have a working garden when life...
What use is tradition if it cannot be passed on to younger generations? Since 2000, the FARM Institute in Katama has been teaching the rich Island...