While I like the large, juicy, sweet apples being harvested at orchards this season, I am enchanted by the little (and less well-known) crabapple.

Pretend that you are a migrating robin. You have just arrived at the Gay Head cliffs after a long migration flight the previous night.

Fifty-one rainbow trout arrived at the high school Tuesday morning, part of the horticulture program’s unit on aquaculture. The vocational program will use the trout in their hydroponics greenhouse.

The Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group on Friday accepted a $135,693 federal grant that will allow it to continue studying the invasive wetland grass phragmites, which it believes could play a role in reducing the amount of nitrogen in coastal ponds.

The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank is moving forward with plans to create a seasonal low impact campground on a two-acre site inside the Southern Woodlands Reservation.

Man-made breaches at Island ponds help maintain salinity for shellfish and eelgrass and flush out nitrogen that accumulates mostly from septic tanks and runoff.