Yesterday, the Farm Project spent the morning maintaining the Chilmark Elementary school garden, weeding beds, harvesting veggies, and setting up trellises for beans. In the afternoon we visited Beetlebung Beef in Chilmark and had a blast! We were lucky enough to spend the afternoon feeding sheep and pigs, learning about rotational grazing of livestock, how to ...
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North Tabor Farm is a 6 acre farm in Chilmark run by Rebecca Miller and Matthew Dix who grow heirloom vegetables, shiitake mushrooms, flowers, and, their specialty, salad greens. Rebecca talked with us last week about salad greens and in general about experimenting with an ever-growing farm — this year they will be expanding to a ...
Read More The Farm Institute’s chickens know it’s spring! They are laying hundreds of eggs: the farm donated 48 dozen eggs to our schools this month.
Read More Lloyd Hart from MV Organics gives his two cents on growing a year-round green for the community.
Read More Wise Owl Farm is taking over the french fry, one sweet potato at a time.
Read More The cranberry, one of North America’s three native fruits, is making a comeback on the island. The Vineyard Open Land Foundation (VOLF) grows Early Blacks, a historic variety of cranberries, in its Cranberry Acres bog on Lambert’s Cove Road, which is being restored using organic, traditional methods. Learn more about our featured farm this month ...
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