Farm & Garden
By LYNNE IRONS
There was a hoedown at Morning Glory Farm on Saturday. The farm was celebrating its 30th year as an Island agricultural institution, with friends, customers and other farmers showing up to share in the fellowship on the eve of the first day of summer.
By LYNNE IRONS
By LYNNE IRONS
By LYNNE IRONS
I realize it is unpopular to want more rain but, honestly, the several days of hot, dry wind just sucked the moisture out of everything including me. Even after last Friday’s lovely shower, the soil was completely dusty a half inch down. I’m hyper-aware of this fact as I am attempting a new vegetable garden where the well has yet to be completed. I have become extremely grateful to turn on the faucet at my own place.
The Whippoorwill Farm community supported agriculture program is still accepting members for the coming season, after a wobbly financial year.
The CSA, which serves between 300 to 400 families each summer, moved in 2004 from Thimble Farm to a 43-acre lot of farm land off the Vineyard Haven-Edgartown Road.
The space has better potential, according to farm manager Andrew Woodruff, but it has presented more problems, from poor irrigation to a lack of capital and, last year, a bad growing season.