Thomas Humphrey

More Than Just the Fair

Not that we don’t love our fair, but The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society has a bigger mission – and new programming – to help both farmers and home 
gardeners to get growing.

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Menemsha Loses a Handful of Parking Spots

Seven diagonal spaces on North Road between the Galley and Menemsha Market are changing to three parallel spaces.

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Howes House Renovation Plan Faces Continued Pushback

Plans to renovate and expand the Howes House in West Tisbury have run up against repeated roadblocks in recent weeks.

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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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Sheriff's Meadow Eyes New Headquarters

After nearly 40 years at the Wakeman Conservation Center, the nonprofit is initiating plans to relocate to a Campbell Road property in West Tisbury.

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State Issues Air Quality Alert for Dukes County

Elevated levels of ozone in Dukes County prompted the state to issue an air quality alert Wednesday.

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Trust Floats New Grange Hall Basement

The Vineyard Preservation Trust approached West Tisbury officials last week to talk about putting a finished basement in the historic Grange Hall.

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State Grants a Boon to Island Shellfishermen

A bay scallop farming study is one of several projects in Dukes County funded by new state grants, aimed at bolstering the local shellfish industry in a time of climate change.

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Nurturing the Legacy of Polly Hill

Twenty-five years since its founding as an arboretum and 65 years after Polly Hill planted her first tree, the Polly Hill Arboretum remains a world-class horticultural institution.

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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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