A former musicians' workshop on Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs will become the Island Food Pantry's permanent home, if regional and town officials agree to the proposal by the pantry's parent nonprofit, Island Grown Initiative.
Even as one system reaches the end of its lifecycle, composting activists on-Island are envisioning a bright future for local organic waste management.
Seven years after it was first proposed, a project meant to improve the water quality and ecosystem at the Sheriff’s Meadow Roth Woodlands has yet to get underway.
By the time the eight-week community lunch service ends August 18, it will have served 14,000 lunches. That’s more than in both 2021 and 2022, though those programs didn’t run as long.
Island Grown Initiative purchased an old warehouse in Oak Bluffs last week and plans to convert it into a the permanent home for the nonprofit's food pantry.
On March 2, the federal government issued the last of its pandemic SNAP allotments, but a $1.3 million grant to the Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation is helping keep Islanders fed.
Island Grown Initiative's acquisition includes a fully-equipped commercial kitchen — complete with professional baking equipment — as well as storage and office space, a retail storefront and two company vehicles.
For many seasonal travelers, Martha’s Vineyard appears the epitome of an affluent Island, but many Islanders face a growing food insecurity made more dire by record inflation and a worldwide pandemic.
Following a career as an executive in high tech, advertising and other fast-paced industries, Rebecca Haag turned to nonprofit work, and has led Island Grown Initiative since 2016.
