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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 […]