Betsy and Jesse Fink know the power of a seed. The two philanthropists met in forestry school. They’ve also cultivated ideas, growing and nurturing them until they become forces in the world.

Every year, 6,500 tons of food waste is shipped off the Vineyard at a premium. Leaders at the Martha’s Vineyard Food Waste Initiative and its partners aim to change all that.

Uncle Seth’s Pond in West Tisbury has been closed to swimmers, the town selectmen confirmed on Wednesday. The likely cause is bacterial contamination, selectman Kent Healy said.

One month, six dead whales, four of them females. The North Atlantic right whale population is still fluttering on the point of extinction despite a trans-national conservation effort.

Only a brief couple of weeks separates the end of avian northward migration from the start of southward migration.

They were dog-gone near perfect this year.