Tuesday, July 14th from 6–8 PM at MV Public Charter School

Hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society

Growing perennial foods can be a game changer for farmers. Experience a forest garden in action with Roxanne Kapitan and see firsthand how the interplanting of berries, greens, rooting crops, herbs, and medicinals yield a beneficial community of edible plants.

We will also discuss best practices for agricultural education and how Island Grown Schools use food forests and gardens at each school to educate the next generation!

COST: FREE and open to all current farm employees! Dinner provided, registration preferred.

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Please join American Farmland Trust and AFT Board Chair Bob Egerton at the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society for a reception and conversation with AFT President & CEO John Piotti and other special guests. Discover how AFT works to uplift and strengthen the farmers and ranchers who steward working lands – on Martha’s Vineyard, and beyond.

Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society 
35 Panhandle Rd, West Tisbury, MA 

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Please join American Farmland Trust for an on-farm field walk at Island Grown Initiative. AFT and IGI are partnering in multiple ways that help enhance farm viability and climate resilience through regenerative agricultural practice adoption.   

For 20 years, Island Grown Initiative has worked to build a strong local food system for all on Martha’s Vineyard through farm to school education, food access programs that support more than 1 in 5 year-round residents, and a 42-acre regenerative farm that helps heal the environment while producing abundant food for the community.

Space is limited so sign up to join us today!

Island Grown Farm Hub at Thimble Farm 
80 Stoney Hill Road, Vineyard Haven, MA

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Saturday, July 18th from 5–6:30 PM at the Ag Hall

Join the Ag Society for a lively discussion about the future of food and farming with organic and regenerative principles. Caroline Pam, Co-Executive Director of Island Grown Initiative, will moderate a conversation between Dave Chapman of Long Wind Farm in VT and the Real Organic Project and Andrew Woodruff, owner of Whippoorwill Farm and IGI's Regenerative Farming Consultant. 

COST: FREE and open to all, registration helpful.

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Spend an afternoon at the Island Grown Farm for an inside look at our regenerative farming practices with Andrew Woodruff, Regenerative Agriculture Consultant, and Tim Connelly, Farm Director. After the tour, hear from our Co-Executive Directors, Noli Taylor and Caroline Pam, as they share more about IGI’s mission to build a regenerative and equitable food system.

Please be sure to wear comfortable shoes to walk in as it's a working farm and can be dusty or wet.

Register HERE.

Spend an afternoon at the Island Grown Farm for an inside look at our regenerative farming practices with Andrew Woodruff, Regenerative Agriculture Consultant, and Tim Connelly, Farm Director. After the tour, hear from our Co-Executive Directors, Noli Taylor and Caroline Pam, as they share more about IGI’s mission to build a regenerative and equitable food system.

Please be sure to wear comfortable shoes to walk in as it's a working farm and can be dusty or wet.

Register HERE.

Spend an afternoon at the Island Grown Farm for an inside look at our regenerative farming practices with Andrew Woodruff, Regenerative Agriculture Consultant, and Tim Connelly, Farm Director. After the tour, hear from our Co-Executive Directors, Noli Taylor and Caroline Pam, as they share more about IGI’s mission to build a regenerative and equitable food system.

Please be sure to wear comfortable shoes to walk in as it's a working farm and can be dusty or wet.

Register HERE.