When you walk out to our backyard, the first thing you’ll notice is that CDs are hanging from the branches of many of our bushes. It’s not because we want our forsythias to look like gypsies; it’s to scare away the damn deer.
By Geoff Currier
The Franklins, who run Vineyard Photo, keep a project in motion at home.
By Margaret Knight
My strategy is to plant a little more than I need of everything, do my imperfect best at pest control, then resign myself to sharing some of my bounty with the critters and insects.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
When a house acquires a name on the Island, it’s a sign that a stranger has arrived, worked hard, sacrificed, and achieved something memorable.
By Ali Berlow
Daffodils are the year-round Vineyarder’s special pleasure, along with pinkletinks and parking spots in Edgartown.
By Paul Schneider
Deep in the woods of Chilmark off Tabor House Road, the earthly and the ethereal meet in the timber-frame home of the Goff-Maidoff family.
By Margaret Knight
A renowned expert on indigenous flora on Martha’s Vineyard, Carlos Montoya has been interested in native plants since he began landscaping here some twenty years ago.
By Laura D. Roosevelt
Ask the experts your toughest home-owning questions.
By Tom Dresser
When John Abrams takes you on a tour of his five favorite buildings on Martha’s Vineyard, he doesn’t talk much about architecture. To Abrams – the president and co-founder of South Mountain Company, the innovative design and construction firm in West Tisbury – a building is defined by the way it connects to the community it serves, or to the setting in which it stands.
By Ian Fein
Notable Island designers and builders identify the rooms that best express their aesthetic.
By Joyce Wagner
A rose is not just a rose, and other surprises.
By Jeanne Campbell
