At first glance, Rick Karney does not appear to be a farmer. He works on the water and is usually more damp than dirty.But to watch him in action is to be sure that the work Mr. Karney does at the...

In the food industry, it’s all about the numbers.Eight ounces in a cup. Three hundred fifty degrees to bake cookies. Seven o’clock dinner rush.This summer, Austin Racine and Katrina Yekel...

She is most at home in the water and on it.“My grandparents had a house on Morse street with a barn out back and they gave it to my parents when they got married. We called it The Shack and I...

Coffee grinds, apple cores and curly orange carrot peels: straight to the trash they go in most households. But on Island farms, these food scraps (along with egg shells, wilted greens and watermelon...

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. So said the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The bookshelves in the West...

Island voters will not decide whether to make minor modifications to Dukes County government until the fall, but the county commission has already taken the first steps toward change.In a June 19...

Julian Barbosa was raised on a farm where he learned to cook with vegetables grown in his backyard. When he moved to Martha’s Vineyard four years ago, he continued cooking, both at home and...

Massachusetts fell prey this weekend to the tainted tomato scare which has taken the vegetable off store shelves from Florida to California.The Department of Health and Human Services announced...

The boom years are over, the Island population is aging at a rapid rate and an underground economy — conservatively estimated at $34 million in unreported wages — threatens to undermine...

The seeds are planted and the first hay harvested. Across the Island, farms are full of activity and, just as their farmers are busy with animals and crops, farming advocates are working tirelessly...