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.

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.

Rose Hip Purée - Linsey Lee's Edible Wild Plants

patrick phillips — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:13:42 +0000

Edible Wild Plants, by Linsey Lee is quite a timeless book. It's
both a work of cultural art and a cultural artifact. This excerpt focusses

Joel Salatin: Self-Sustaining Island Agriculture

editor — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:54:27 +0000

Joel Salatin of PolyFace Farm presents a case for a self-sustaining island agriculture using existing island land and a pasture-based system.

IGI Poultry Event

editor — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:46:19 +0000

Island Grown Initiative, IGI, held an all-day educational "Poultry" event at the new Ag Hall, Saturday February 16th.

Upwards of 60 people at any one time listened to speakers and shared their experiences on growing egg-layers, meat birds and heritage hens. What birds to raise, how to pasture chickens and protect them from predators and the design and construction of mobile pasture "tractors" were some of the generous discussions. In all, it was an informative community exchange of knowhow and insight.

Local Apples

StuartR — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:23:58 +0000

Lemon

Shamo — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:21:53 +0000

The Falacious Sweetness

MaggieHoward17 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:21:12 +0000

This picture was taken to represent the differences between local and imported foods.

Local Food

uberlord — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:02:53 +0000

Lobsters caught locally by lobsterman Christopher Stien. Oppossed to canned crab meat from the west coast in down Island Cronigs.