A popular hiking trail at the Hoft Farm Preserve, the Nature Conservancy’s 92-acre property on Lambert’s Cove Road in West Tisbury, now has a name of its own: Tom Chase Trail.
Weather permitting, the Martha's Vineyard Prescribed Fire Partnership will conduct the burn at the Hoft Farm in West Tisbury.
For more than a hundred years, the barn at Hoft Farm has born witness to the hard work and heartbreak of Vineyard rural life. The large barn, rising three stories high from its substantial fieldstone foundation, marked the ambition and optimism of the Hoft family, who settled on the Island after ocean journey and shipwreck. John Hoft, born in Hamburg, Germany, planted an orchard of apples, pears, peaches and plums.
The day was cold and clear at the old John Hoft Farm.
The Massachusetts chapter of The Nature Conservancy announced this week it will purchase the John Hoft Farm, 90 acres of rolling pastures and unspo
John Hoft Farm on Lambert’s Cove Road is a spectacular place, a 90-acre expanse of pasture, woods and lowlands that, for many people, symbolizes th