Farms

Updated June 8, 2017 Description Slip Away began as the dream of 3 young farmers with land that needed soil building. Years later, and as the only farm on Chappaquiddick, they are vital members of the...

Updated June 8, 2017 Location 223 Vineyard Haven-Edgartown Road, Oak Bluffs 02557 Link to MV Farm Map Contact Phone: 508-696-5989 Email: jnorton@mvyps.org Online: http://www.marthasvineyardfarm.com/ Products include Sustainably grown seasonal fruits, vegetables, herbs, and more Sales locations Market farmstand open daily 9 to 5 p.m, June through October For more...

Updated June 8, 2017 Description Morning Glory Farm has long been known as the place to shop for a good, local and complete meal, and for their sweet corn. But the heart of the matter in...

Updated June 9, 2017 Description This multigenerational farm family works together to grow food, medicine and honey. They take pride in using biodynamic growing methods that support the ecosystem and help to maintain healthy soil and...

Updated June 8, 2017 Description What is most important to Rusty Gordon, owner of Ghost Island Farm, is that CSA members feel they are part of a community, that they feel comfortable and at home, and...

Updated June 8, 2017 Description Spring Moon Farm began about the same time as kids came along in 1995, as the realization of a dream, a multi-generational, diverse family farm-homestead. Elizabeth Packer and her children Oscar...

Updated June 8, 2017 Description This south facing farm with gentle hills that roll to Chilmark Pond and the ocean beyond has always been farmed organically. Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and herbicides have never been applied to...

Updated June 9, 2017 Description As a child, Andrew Woodruff learned about growing food for the family table and selling any surplus at the newly formed West Tisbury Farmers Market. Today Whippoorwill Farm offers CSA shares...

Bees are in the news again, unfortunately. Beeinformed.org, in collaboration with Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is reporting troubling statistics about seasonal and annual bee-colony losses. Over the past...

In a series of profiles, The Times introduces the men and women who farm on Martha’s Vineyard. This interview was conducted in mid-June, as Mr. Woodruff, located off Old County Road in West Tisbury,...

Lots of good farms here on the Vineyard. Here's our updated list of who's selling what, where. Please let us know (onisland@mvtimes.com) if you have anything to add. With thanks to SlowFood MV, Living...

Catching up with Lily Walter of Slip Away Farm.

I think that starting out is hard; just being somebody coming here without any money or family land is hard, and just trying to make a business and make it work – especially a farm. And getting it set up and all of the infrastructure set up and done and paid for before you can start making a profit. But it’s all I’ve been doing and I don’t want to be doing anything else.

"The panel shed light on some of the barriers, real or perceived, about the harvest, delivery, the business of farming," Ali Berlow said about a forum at the Grange Hall on November 1.