Farm & Field
On a recent Friday morning, a group of Edgartown School students could be found in the back of the building, grossly immersed in studies. They had...
Food is for your stomach, and flowers are for your soul. That’s what Victoria Riger tells people when they ask why she sells flowers rather than...
The Vineyard is lucky to be an Island full of commercial farms that produce the best of the bounty, supplying Islanders with fresh lettuce,...
Simon Bollin has given buying locally a whole new meaning. For him, it’s not about where the food comes from or how it’s grown, but what it used to...
Lisa Fisher is protective of the word organic. She guards it like one of her precious artichokes, pays close attention to the term as she tends her...
Every morning since April 24, Paul Goldstein has set out 30 colored soufflé cups with soapy water in them, a technique called bee bowling.
Their hands were stained red, their backs a little sore, but the smell of strawberries, as though you had stuck your head straight into a...
There’s something romantic about hay bales dotting the rolling fields of the Vineyard at this time of year, those magical, large pillows that...
As entries pour in for the 148th annual Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair, poster competition winner Morgan Lucero is...
Late blight: the first part of the name given to the vicious plant disease that affects tomatoes and potatoes is somewhat misleading, at least this...
Simon Athearn of Morning Glory was making hay while the sun shone yesterday, though he wasn’t yet ready to bet the farm — just a few acres in fact...
Less agriculturally-minded folk than Mitchell Posin might mistake the sign on South Road advertising compost tea for a joke, something dreamt up by...