Farming

Every Third Bite: Local Bees

patrick phillips — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:20:26 +0000

What is colony collapse and what are local beekeepers doing to help address the problem?

Local Poultry Processing

editor — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:52:54 +0000

From Family Flock to Homegrown Food

Island Grown Initiative (IGI) Local Poultry Processing

editor — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:14:12 +0000

From Family Flock to Homegrown Food

Island Grown Initiative (IGI), a not-for-profit, is helping local backyard farmers on Martha's Vineyard feed their families.

In this trial run of IGI's Mobile Poultry Processing Trailer, three flock owners bring their birds to a neutral site to be humanely and cleanly processed into food for their families. In regulatory language, this is a 'custom only' event, ie: not for sale. IGI's trained team handles the process to ensure quality control. The growers participate in the processing and in the end, take their own dressed birds home for bagging.

In the 'Pack in Pack out' process - each family is also responsible for the removal of compostables, back to their property for proper composting. The equipment is cleaned and sanitized between flocks. In total, seventy-eight cornish rock hens are humanely handled and safely processed. Now, three backyard farmers have their own food in their own freezers for their own families.

Michael Pollan and IGI — Local Poultry Processing

editor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:45:07 +0000

Island Grown Initiative (IGI), a not-for-profit, is helping local backyard farmers feed their families.

LocalVore — Janice Perrin and Eating Local

janice — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:50:15 +0000

(photo is by Randi Baird)

After twenty years of being a vegetarian I realized there is a lot of social stigmatism that goes with eating differently.

IGI and Ethnic Crops Program at UMass Amherst

editor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:33 +0000

Island Grown Initiative, a local food, culture and agriculture organization, joins local growers, the local Brazilian community and island restaurants in an effor

Growing Taioba: Island Grown and World Foods Program

editor — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:18:09 +0000

Island Grown Initiative, a local food, culture and agriculture organization, joins local growers, the local Brazilian community and island restaurants in an effor

Permaculture - A Design Course on Sustainable Living on MV in Sept.

DickPierce — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:52:49 +0000

Publicity/sound bytes abound these days on: Green living, local food, concerns over climate, water and soil, using more local/renewable resources, alternate transportation, and Green/natural building. Designing/remodeling homes, landscapes and whole communities for lower resource use, more recycling and reuse, less oil-based transportation, and more local businesses, employment, products, and food production are becoming more important to the economy, the environment, and human welfare. Sustainable Strategy efforts are springing up for cities/towns, schools, colleges, open spaces, farms, and neighborhoods.

Chemical free recipes for bee keeping

island101 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:57:17 +0000

The only way to tell if your bees have Nosema is to look into the bee gut with a microscope.

The Hired bee

island101 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:03:28 +0000

During the spring of 2007, bee woes made continual headline news in the United States. Many reports said at least on third of the honeybees in the United States had mysteriously vanished.