More than 20 volunteers gathered Sunday morning to plant 10 new trees across three parks in Oak Bluffs — Niantic, Nashawena and Viera.
Farm & Garden
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Imagine sheep grazing at Wasque Point on Chappaquiddick, or goats and cattle browsing the greenery at Long Point Wildlife Refuge. It’s not a long...
Bean Thyme By LYNNE IRONS I pretty much make it up as I go along. I planted an enormous amount of English thyme from seed a couple of years in a row...
The secret to growing sweet blueberries on the Vineyard is patience and sun. “I say this every single chance I get,” blueberry farmer Susan Murphy...
Workwise, Josh Scott is an ultra-marathoner. On a sunny, brisk spring morning, the arborist and owner of Beetlebung Tree Care walks around a...
It has been my habit for the past several years of column waiting to jot down points of interest as I drive around. This past week, it has been...
Jamie Norton is looking forward to having his house back next winter. For years now his roommates — starter trays of peppers, eggplants, melons,...
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Nature & Science Stories
A new chapter in Island environmental restoration is blooming in a laboratory on the shores of the Lagoon. There, in a cool tub of water at a Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group Hatchery, a small artificial meadow of eelgrass is beginning to flower.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in New Jersey caused minor tremors on Martha’s Vineyard Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards program.