Compost your food scraps for free this month at any Martha's Vineyard transfer station.
Island Grown Initiative executive director Rebecca Haag, who spearheaded the creation of the Vineyard’s food equity network and IGI’s 2021 merger with the Island Food Pantry, has announced she will retire this spring.
The Martha’s Vineyard Commission this week unanimously approved the Island Food Pantry’s plan for a permanent move to 114-116 Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs.
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.
