My grandfather was ninety-six years old when he died. He tripped, a bucket of fertilizer in one hand and a shovel in the other.

Expanding operations at Island Grown Initiative’s Thimble Farm were a topic of concern among neighbors during a hearing at the Tisbury selectmen’s meeting Tuesday, when IGI president Sarah McKay appeared before the board to secure permits for four existing propane tanks.

How can a long, hard winter and a late spring turn a couple of nice days into full-on garden madness? I got behind practically the day I started.

Where does a garden columnist start? There is so much emerging life all around. I think May has been called high spring. It is impossible to keep up.

The farmer invited us inside his home to join his wife and cat. We sat on fold-out chairs around a fold-out aluminum table next to a wood stove.

When it comes to birds, what I don’t know is a lot. I keep promising myself that I will take up bird watching when I’m old.