More than 20 volunteers gathered Sunday morning to plant 10 new trees across three parks in Oak Bluffs — Niantic, Nashawena and Viera.
Farm & Garden
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The only thing predictable about New England weather is its ability to change. After a few lovely spring days, we are back to rain and wind.
Dark green and gray, slick with algae, pocked with parasitic scars and polychaete worm tunnels, wild oysters are survivors, fighting everything the...
Having had a series of beautiful days, I find myself in a dilemma. It’s time to get out in the fields. I need to go to work.
The wind is worse for outdoor work than rain or even snow. Tarps blow around, it’s impossible to spread fertilizer and a person’s overall mood...
I wonder if I did something right in my previous life to end up on the Vineyard.
The snow is gone, temperatures are rising, shrubs and trees are showing tiny buds and folks seem very happy.
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Nature & Science Stories
A new chapter in Island environmental restoration is blooming in a laboratory on the shores of the Lagoon. There, in a cool tub of water at a Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group Hatchery, a small artificial meadow of eelgrass is beginning to flower.
A 4.8 magnitude earthquake centered in New Jersey caused minor tremors on Martha’s Vineyard Friday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Hazards program.