Farm and Field: Trade-Offs

I was headed down Quenames Road in Chilmark, where neon pastures peak through a forest of scraggly oak and pine for a visit to Milkweed Farm, the little sandy fiefdom where Mallory Watts has recently begun to reap a yearly harvest. 

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Farm and Field: Old and New

The present always holds a little something of the past, but nothing stays the same.

Autumn and winter wipe away summer’s harvest as the year’s crops bear their fruit then wither. New calves are born and grown steer slaughtered.

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Farm and Field: Autumnal Whisperings

It feels a bit wrong, in the sultry September days that have so far graced the Island, to write about the changing of the seasons.

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Farm and Field: Manure Magic

In this time of summer hustle, as the harvest of high-season gardens abound, I find my mind often turning to the subject of manure.

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Farm and Field: Agrarian Rhythms 

On our summer-centric, tourism fueled Island, we have lost a little something of the traditional, agrarian rhythms of New England.

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Farm and Field: Scallop Ranchers

It is tough to imagine the mindset of the first farmers, those pioneers of biological engineering who, consciously or not, began bending wild flora and fauna to human ends.

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Farm and Field: Flower, not Flour

When Dr. Daniel Fisher cut a road through the woodlands, it was with agriculture in mind.

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Farm and Field: Grass Farmers

Bucolic is a word that often comes to mind on the Vineyard, where jaggy oak forests give way to rolling, soft green pastures.

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Strawberry Weather

The strawberry festival at Morning Glory Farm last weekend was a rainy affair, but then again it often is.

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Farm and Field: Seasonal Shift

Summer is over; there are many ways to tell. Late season greens such as kale and spinach will remain abundant, melons are finally coming into their own, and garlic will soon be planted for next year.

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