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Joel Salatin of PolyFace Farm presents a case for a self-sustaining island agriculture using existing island land and a pasture-based system.
Farmers feed us. And The FARM Institute is two years into a project to raise pigs for work and breeding and for pork. Melinda Rabbit DeFeo walks us through the fields to teach us about their heritage-breed pigs. These pigs are Gloucester Old Spot/Tamworth cross breeds. They root, eat and sleep. They will take the entire seven acre corn maze in a few weeks. The pigs are also an excellent source of food and present the island an opportunity to discover new ways of sustainable animal-farming.
Julie Vanderhoop talks about her passion: community baking.
On Tisbury Great Pond Tom Osmers tends thousands of healthy seed oysters in the oyster nursery. The seed are part of a larger effort by Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group to build sustainable hatcheries here.
fair and music
Somoco and friends play scramble at the 2007 Chappaquiddick Open. September 7, 2007
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This is the first float and "sail" of the 50' schooner "Charlotte" designed and built by Nat Benjamin.
For year-round residents of Martha's Vineyard the dream of home ownership is quickly becoming impossible.