Since I write on Tuesday for a Wednesday morning pick-up, I missed discussing last Thursday’s impressive rainfall. Violet helped pile bags of compost on the edge of my driveway. The water was rushing and threatened to come in the kitchen door. Yikes. On one of the job sites, a gutter failed and filled a large stone planting pot. Nicely spread compost and mulch formed rivers into lawns. Sigh!
Nature & Science
Conservation groups around the Island are struggling to protect piping plovers and other shorebirds from an abundance of skunks and crows, which have...
Hans-Jürgen Melderis hails from Hamburg, Germany, and on Monday he presented a program entitled Other Life in the Universe? On NASA’s Discovery of...
West Tisbury Free Public Library, Island Grown Schools and the Farm Institute will launch a new community seed library initiative, to be housed at...
Gray treefrogs are not a common animal on Martha’s Vineyard. In fact, there has been some dialogue about their existence on the Island at all.
Help Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fern and Feather Day Camp. I was teaching there when I was a mere 23 years...
If you are headed out today to fish the derby, use extra caution: the National Weather Service has issued high surf and small craft advisories until...
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Thursday July 11, 2024
Beige and brown and tan and black, with horns spiraled or semicircular or in undulating waves, a legion of goats marched up the hill toward us, bleating in anticipation of fresh grass and leaves.