Martha's Vineyard
Island Sustainable Living
Island Sustainable Living
Work
Guest Celebrity-Chef dinners establish a market and a close relationship between farms, harvesters, and end users. Revenue generated from these dinners fund additional ISL initiatives such as a working farm used to teach about sustainable harvesting and living.Expect fabulous island-harvest dinners, country elegance and entertainment in an outstanding setting. The series starts late spring and runs through fall, concluding with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Dates will be posted here. Practicing and teaching about Sustainable Living never tasted as good.
By turning manure to methane gas we reduce our carbon footprint, minimize nitrogen loading of the soil and waters, sequester carbon in the soil, and produce electricity for the island. Yankee ingenuity lives on, and Martha's Vineyard puts that ingenuity to good use.
When people do not know, they can not act. That is one reason education around sustainable living is a centerpiece and is critically important to ISL's mission.Cultivating sustainable living on the island preserves our farms, our health and our environment, preserves long-standing family traditions, and sets examples from which other communities can learn and follow. That is why ISL's goal to establish a working family farm to serve as a living, breathing classroom for children and adults is so important.
ISL helps those of an agricultural background who are in need.
We balance the needs of the elderly while helping younger generations gain
access to the skills they need in order to make meaningful contributions to
society, and to lead rewarding lives.
ISL Island food products such as artisan cheese and Italian ice cream create a market for island growers' harvest, saves local farms, and furthers ISL's mission.
