When the pandemic hit, six-year-old Henry Scott was in kindergarten at the Martha’s Vineyard Charter School and two-year-old Deirdre Scott was in preschool at First Light Child Development...

With news this week that the Chilmark Flea Market wouldn’t after all be happening this summer, I felt a wave of gratitude for the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market folks. Not to mention the...

The peacock and the rooster were having a standoff when I got out of the car at Down Island Farm on Sunday. It was entertaining. They made a lot of fuss but in reality they were just doing their jobs...

Tuesday night I drove from the wilds of West Tisbury all the way to Oak Bluffs, rolling the windows down as I passed the rosa rugosa blooming along Beach Road before the drawbridge. That fragrance...

For years I was a production grower, planting everything in rows or squares to maximize output. Even flowers and herbs went into utilitarian beds, surrounded by ugly deer fencing. Sure, beauty had a...

I’m determined to grow more food this year. We just put a little addition on our vegetable garden and I’ve carved out an area for perennial herbs. I have 150 seedlings inside the house (...

  Visiting an Island art gallery may be a different experience this summer. We may not be gathering inside as much. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of art to see outside...

Photographer Tim Johnson is modest. “I try and let my images speak for me,” he remarked recently when asked about the process of photographing thousands of images over the years for...

Things are looking up. Proof that summer actually will come: Morning Glory farm stand opened on Tuesday. My meals are more delicious already. For the last several weeks, I’ve been hanging...

Between gray skies and rainstorms, I ventured out and bought two blueberry bushes and two rhubarb plants this week. Are they in my budget? Not really, but it’s not like I’ve had an...