It’s about time. I got an email from Wayne Smith with an attached photograph of a hawk at the nest containing three chicks. Finally, with that photo, the red-shouldered hawk becomes the newest species known to nest on the Island.
Farm & Garden
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By LYNNE IRONS I am crazy about the Kousa dogwood. They seem to be everywhere. I have two just out of infancy and hope for them a long life as...
Julian Barbosa was raised on a farm where he learned to cook with vegetables grown in his backyard. When he moved to Martha’s Vineyard four years...
By LYNNE IRONS
The seeds are planted and the first hay harvested. Across the Island, farms are full of activity and, just as their farmers are busy with animals...
By LYNNE IRONS Don Brown is a marketing genius. There is a gorgeous Golden Rain Tree in North Tisbury. Don put a large number of them for sale...
The road leading into Flat Point Farm in West Tisbury is surrounded by hay fields and on Friday afternoon the late-day sun brushed their tops in...
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Nature & Science Stories
John Muir had a fondness for ferns. He encouraged this activity: “Spread a fern-frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.”
This year’s Cross-Island hike takes place Saturday, June 1, beginning at 8 a.m. at Hillman’s Point at Lake Tashmoo. The full trek is just over 19 miles long, ending at the Chilmark Pond Preserve.