Thimble Farm News Today

Former President Barack Obama summers in a quiet part of Edgartown known as Turkeyland (sometimes spelled “Turkey Land”). Edgartonians were long mocked as “Old Town Turkeys” by our neighboring Nantucketeers. Our modern Island is swarming with gaggles of wild, marauding gobblers. What’s up with all the turkeys? There is evidence, if a little scant, that […]

West Tisbury School students streamed out of the building, led by the first graders, to walk for the Island Food Pantry in Oak Bluffs. With the teachers guiding them on the two laps around the campus, and some of the older students helping to chaperone the younger ones, excited chatter, laughter, high-fives, and singing of […]

Island Grown Initiative is ready to sign up members for its summer Community Supported Agriculture program, which will run from June 16 to Oct. 27. CSA membership, according to a press release, supports IGI’s efforts to develop innovative regenerative growing techniques in its fields and its overall mission to help keep the community well fed. […]

North Saanich nursery owner says she rarely sees Lonicera fragrantissima on plant lists from her growers but it is listed on Fraser’s Thimble Farm website

Updated 4:20 pm Island Grown Initiative is looking to expand its facilities to consolidate the farm’s operations, expand its educational programs, and provide housing for IGI workers at its Thimble Farm headquarters. IGI proposes a new one-story 3,200 square foot education and innovation center for offices and educational spaces, three seasonal yurts of 16 feet […]

The 62nd annual Martha’s Vineyard Christmas Bird Count (CBC) was held amid drizzle, fog, and an incredibly high tide on Sunday, Jan. 2. My own effort, counting birds from West Chop to Vineyard Haven to Thimble Farm, was undermined by a car breakdown. But my impression of the day matched reports from everyone else: few […]

Many small plots make up one big happy community garden.

Physician, researcher, professor, healthcare executive, jam maker, gardener, architecture aficionado, world traveler, runner, beloved husband, father, and grandfather Sam Nussbaum passed away on Sept. 23, 2021, at his home in Oak Bluffs. The cause was pancreatic cancer.  Nussbaum began coming to Martha’s Vineyard in 1977, as part of the program in which Martha’s Vineyard Hospital […]

The Marthas Vineyard Times Aquinnah plans to invite tribe to the table Selectmen agree to send a letter to reopen talks. The Aquinnah board of selectmen will invite Cheryl Andews-Maltais and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) back to the table to talk about their casino project. -Gabrielle Mannino The Aquinnah board of selectmen will reach out to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) through a letter inviting them back to the table to talk about the tribe’s gambling f...

The Marthas Vineyard Times IGI prepares for upcoming growing season Food Pantry in the works at P.A. Club; Thimble Farm prepares to maximize food production and minimize impact on soil.  Lynne Whiting, board president, and Tim Connelly, field manager, clean harvested butternut squash. Island Grown to Go frozen soup. The IGI Mobile Market delivers fresh produce directly to Islanders. As the growing season approaches, Island Grown Initiative (IGI) is working on a number of projects t...