Vogue: A Casually Elegant Wedding on Martha’s Vineyard

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  Whitney’s family has been going to Martha’s Vineyard for generations, so it was an obvious location choice for her wedding. Staunchly against any kind of event that felt preppy or cookie cutter-ish, she held all of the festivities up island. “It is much more pastoral and bucolic,” she says. “I love how there are […]

A Day With Mitchell Posin: Mixing the Compost for a Life Well Lived

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A Day With Mitchell Posin: Mixing the Compost for a Life Well Lived By Mollie Doyle Thursday, May 5, 2016 – 6:10pm It’s a misty May morning in Chilmark and Mitchell Posin doesn’t seem to have an agenda for the day. While other farmers race up and down South Road with their trucks overloaded with […]

True Islanders, Sheep Have Deep Roots

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True Islanders, Sheep Have Deep Roots By Heidi Sistare Thursday, November 14, 2013 – 11:39am The story of sheep on Martha’s Vineyard doesn’t begin with 40 British ships sailing into the Vineyard Haven harbor, but it certainly was a turning point. In September of 1778, Major General Sir Charles Grey of the British army arrived […]

Turbine Goes Up, Electric Bill Down at Allen Farm in Chilmark

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  Turbine Goes Up, Electric Bill Down at Allen Farm in Chilmark   Remy Tumin Wednesday, November 23, 2011 – 4:00pm Five years ago Mitchell Posin and Clarissa Allen had a vision: of sheep grazing under a windmill that powered their Chilmark farm. It was a vision of a working farm functioning with clean energy, […]

36 Hours on Martha’s Vineyard

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  New York Times Published July 23, 2009 By Danielle Pergament THE Democrats are back in power, which means Martha’s Vineyard is on the political radar again. The Kennedys have been coming since there were actual vineyards, Chelsea Clinton is reportedly tying the knot on the island and — oh, didn’t you hear? — the Obamas are […]

Farming in Paradise, Where Lamb is King

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The New York Times Published November 5, 2001 By Amanda Hesser CHILMARK, Mass.— A SMALL pack of male white and chocolate-brown lambs were nudging and shifting, with fleeces tousled by damp weather and heads pitched toward the ground, their focus on the prize: dry, feathery wisps of alfalfa, torn from a hay bale. The alfalfa smelled […]