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Island Grown embraces co-leadership model - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Two top Island Grown Initiative administrators, Noli Taylor and Michelle Gittlen, will assume co-directorship roles in the organization as longtime executive director Rebecca Haag retires. According to a press release from Island Grown, the board that heads the food equity nonprofit appointed Taylor as executive director of programs and outreach, and Gittlen as executive director […] ....

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Harvest of the Month: Cranberries - The Martha's Vineyard Times

As a child on Cape Cod, I marked the passing of the seasons by the activity in the cranberry bogs throughout the landscape. These were big, commercial operations that had helicopters to come in to pick up their crops. We skated on the bogs in the winter, and walked around them in the spring and […] ....

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Island Grown Schools celebrates 15 years - The Martha's Vineyard Times

This year, Island Grows Schools (IGS) celebrates its 15th anniversary. In its decade and a half, IGS has built school gardens, taken students to visit Island farms, brought local food into school cafeterias, and built connections between the classroom, farms, kitchen, and the food we eat. The program reaches nearly every school-aged child on the […] ....

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Harvest of the Month: Tomatoes - The Martha's Vineyard Times

Back in 2011, Island Grown Schools started a Harvest of the Month program to highlight a locally available seasonal crop each month in school cafeterias and grocery stores. The goal was to teach children, families, and the Island community about healthy, seasonal foods while helping to support local farms. Our first ever Harvest of the […] ....

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