What if the secret to happiness lay right outside your kitchen door? In a pretty little garden, full of delicious things to eat. It might sound far-fetched to suggest that a kitchen garden can relieve stress, lift your mood, and even ease depression, but new studies suggest there’s a scientific basis – perhaps even a soil bacterium that elevates serotonin – for the pleasure we can get from digging in the dirt.
By Susie Middleton
His auto empire is far larger than the one he inherited from his late father. But Ernie Boch Jr.'s place in Edgartown? You might be surprised.
By Vanessa Czarnecki
Once, long ago, I fell in love with a house and then I fell in love with the man who built it.
By Rebecca Busselle
Back in 2002, architect Kate Warner set a goal for all of Martha’s Vineyard: install 500 rooftop solar arrays by 2010.
By Olivia Hull
The Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation is now in its second season of using goats to clear invasive Asiatic bittersweet vines from Cedar Tree Neck. That decision was mostly a logistical one. “We were just brainstorming different ways to manage the neck because it’s really hard to access with machinery to mow,” said Kristen Fauteux, director of stewardship for Sheriff’s Meadow.
By Ivy Ashe
Prudy Burt swung her Toyota Tacoma off of North Road and onto the shoulder. She traipsed confidently through the brush, pushing branches out of her way as she headed for Mill Brook. A Burt-led tour of the brook is both history lesson and gossip column, environmental report and storytelling session. She names each pond and knows the property owner responsible for every dam (and whether their children like to fish).
By Heidi Sistare
They are not typical year-round homes; they’re more like well-appointed summer dwellings.
By Joyce Wagner
With a historic Chilmark house slated for a full restoration this fall, we went looking for what remains of 350 years of home design.
By Remy Tumin
Perched above Lambert’s Cove Road in West Tisbury, with views across the wetlands to Vineyard Sound and the Elizabeth Islands, The Folly is Friederike and Jeremy Biggs’s unexpected paean to classical Italian living. Their two-story stucco villa and surrounding seventeen acres reflect the couple’s passion for travel, art, romance, whimsy, comfort, and natural beauty.
By Karla Araujo
On a bluff overlooking Stonewall Beach in Chilmark, architect Peter Rose has designed a remarkable home for the age of erosion.
Martha’s Vineyard is not particularly hospitable when it comes to fruit trees.
By Susan Catling
