Landscapes in Chilmark

Landscapes and bird portraits by Chilmarker Jackie Mendez-Diez are on exhibit this month at Chilmark Free Public Library during regular hours. The large show includes oil paintings and watercolors, all completed in the past several years by the artist who has not shown here for two years. The exhibition will hang until April 30.

The Farm Institute wants you and your children to bury your hands in the fertile soil, not in you wallets.

Buying Local

Ali Berlow of the Island Grown Initiative will discuss where to buy locally grown produce at a free talk on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. at Vineyard Haven Public Library, as part of the library’s ongoing Menu for the Future workshop.

In this year-long serialized novel set on the Vineyard in real time, a native Islander (Call me Becca) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe keep his landscaping business, Pequot, afloat. Abe fears and detests Richard Moby, the chief executive of an off-Island wholesale nursery, Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all Island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe has been obsessed with “taking down” Moby.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a poetry reading by local poets John Maloney and Margaret (Peggy) Howe Freydberg at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, April 8, at 5:30 p.m.

Every spring a benefits fair is sponsored by Dukes County and the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group, the provider of health insurance for municipal employees and their families. This year the event will include wellness programs.

The fair will be held Friday, May 15 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Oak Bluffs School.

Providers of traditional, complementary or alternative medical care, yoga instructors, massage therapists, nutrition counselors and others are asked to please call Tammy at 508-696-3845 to reserve a spot. Space is limited.