Teachers, farmers and students all gathered at the Grange Hall on Friday to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of Island Grown Schools.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will change its cafeteria program beginning next year to be managed in house.

Cutting ties with the federal government has liberated the Vineyard’s free summer lunch program, which begins its second season July 9. The program is sponsored by Island Grown Initiative.

For five weeks this summer, hundreds of Martha’s Vineyard children had a place to eat lunch for free.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School will sponsor a summer food program to help provide meals to children 18 and younger during a month-long pilot program. The meals will be prepared at the high school and delivered to three Island sites.

The Vineyard Gazette will donate $11,000 to the Island Grown Initiative on behalf of more than 700 readers who responded to a subscription campaign.

Rebecca Haag, a Chilmark resident and former business executive, has been named executive director of Island Grown Initiative.

The seed library, a collaboration between the West Tisbury Library, IGS and the Farm Institute, hosted a seed saving workshop on Sunday where Islanders could learn how to process the seeds of beans, lettuce and tomatoes, as well as donate seeds from their own gardens.

West Tisbury Free Public Library, Island Grown Schools and the Farm Institute will launch a new community seed library initiative, to be housed at the West Tisbury library.

The Beach Plum and Island Grown Schools continue their partnership by hosting a wood oven pizza night using fresh harvest from local farms.