A proposal by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to remove an area of white pine trees from the state forest is facing pushback from local forestry experts.
Farm & Garden
Food stories and recipes are now available on Cook the Vineyard ↗
It’s completely understandable why the ancients feared a solar eclipse. Even though we only experienced a partial here on the Vineyard, it was a bit...
Keeping Up
The Slough Farm Foundation is sponsoring a new child care subsidy for middle-income families on Martha’s Vineyard. The new program is working in...
The only thing predictable about New England weather is its ability to change. After a few lovely spring days, we are back to rain and wind.
Dark green and gray, slick with algae, pocked with parasitic scars and polychaete worm tunnels, wild oysters are survivors, fighting everything the...
Having had a series of beautiful days, I find myself in a dilemma. It’s time to get out in the fields. I need to go to work.
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Nature & Science Stories
After eight years of research, a new breakthrough in science has taken a big step forward in potentially stopping the transmission of Lyme disease between mice and ticks.
A new report from the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium this week estimated that the right whale population rose to about 372 whales at the beginning of 2023, up from a previous estimate of 356 whales.