Welcome!
Island Grown Initiative is a grassroots not-for-profit working to support local food and farming on Martha’s Vineyard.
IGI raises consumer awareness about the importance of locally-grown food and works to (re)create the necessary infrastructure that supports farming.
Our three programs: the Pastured Poultry Program which includes mobile poultry processing, Island Grown Schools (farm to school programming) and Island Grown Ethnic – our latest collaboration with Umass Amherst’s Ethnic Crops program – help to support the local year-round community on the Vineyard, the island's twenty-eight small family farms and countless backyard growers.
For directions and information about island farms – check out IGI’s farm map. And to see and hear more about the IGI in the news– go to the Vineyard Voice, a community publishing website for Martha’s Vineyard.
Ali Berlow
Exec. Director, IGI
Farm News and Information
If you've found us through Holly Gleason's Aug. 10 Yummy List, 'Olympic Fences, Bonnie Bramlett, Plant! Now + REASONS OF LOVE' - and you're here for pink + green muffy T's....
On Saturday February 16th, IGI hosted an all-day series of workshops on All Things Poultry that brought out a standing room only crowd.
We were thrilled to help install the first new school garden in our Farm to School program on May 31 and June 1.
From August 11th-13th, IGI will host a Farm to School Summer Institute for Teachers, a 3-day workshop for educators on Martha’s Vineyard interested in incorporating curriculum-tied food, farm and sc
Follow the link for a listing of upcoming agricultural and Farm to School-related workshops and conferences in the area.