On Memorial Day weekend, join the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club for its annual plant sale at the Old Mill, 690 Edgartown Road in West Tisbury. All proceeds benefit the Club’s civic projects. For more information visit https://www.marthasvineyardgardenclub.org/
The Vineyard Conservation Society (VCS) is the Island’s local environmental organization, dedicated to preserving our land and water through advocacy, education, and legal defense. In this Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club program on July 18, Samantha Look will share the details of the VCS “Vineyard Lawns” initiative. Due to rising concerns for how the health of our ponds, our wildlife, our pets and our own bodies are impacted by lawn care practices, VCS is advocating for a more holistic and ecologically friendly approach to how we maintain our lawns. The collective area dedicated to lawn space in the United States is roughly equivalent to the combined landmass of Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. How we reduce and manage these spaces has significant impacts. Sam will share information about how the seemingly simple act of caring for a lawn intersects strongly with climate change, water quality and personal health, as well as tips and resources for how to apply the Vineyard Lawn approach in your own backyard.
Samantha is the newly-appointed Executive Director of VCS. She began working with the organization in 2014 and helped lead plastic pollution reduction efforts, including the island-wide plastic bag ban. She is one of the three member team that maintains the Island Climate Action Network and is the liaison for the Land Use, Natural Resources and Biodiversity section of the MV Climate Action Plan. She helped lead efforts to draft and campaign the house size bylaw that was successfully adopted in West Tisbury in 2022. Sam is an avid gardener, and before working for VCS, was an assistant designer in her mother, Carly Look’s, landscape design office. Understanding the role that home gardeners can play in the protection of biodiversity and the ways in which our yards can act as extensions of our local ecosystems is a central interest to Sam and VCS.
FREE to MVGC Members / Open to non-members @ $10.00 pp. The program will take place at 1 pm at The Old Mill in West Tisbury. Oak Bluffs members and VP to provide snacks & refreshments
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club’s Blooming Art – Opening Night Celebration on Thursday, June 20 from 5 – 8 is an enchanting evening of flowers, art, food & wine, set amid one of the island’s most gorgeous historic properties.
Blooming Art is modeled after the Museum of Fine Art’s Art in Bloom show, an annual celebration of floral arrangements inspired by the Museum’s masterpieces.
This annual event pairs Garden Club members with over 30 Island artist’s artworks. The members then create floral arrangements based on their interpretations of the designated sculpture, painting, photograph or mixed media that mirror the works of art.
All artwork is for sale and proceeds benefit the Garden Club’s Scholarship Fund and the Old Mill Preservation Fund. Many contributing artists will be in attendance for the evening celebration and are excited to talk about their work.
All parking for Opening Night is located at The Grange Hall in West Tisbury. A complimentary shuttle service is provided to and from The Old Mill.
The event is held at the home of the garden club, the historic Old Mill in West Tisbury. The celebration continues through the weekend with the exhibit open to the general public with an admittance fee. All parking is at The Grange Hall in West Tisbury. A complimentary shuttle service is provided to and from The Old Mill. For more information, email gardenclubmv@gmail.com. Tickets are $50, available at www.eventbrite.com
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will sponsor Blooming Art 2016 on Friday, June 24 & Saturday, June 25 from 10 – 5, and Sunday, June 26 from noon – 3. In addition, join them on Thursday, June 23 at 5 pm at The Old Mill in West Tisbury, 690 Edgartown-WT Road, for the gala opening reception, including hors d’oeuvre and libations. Parking will be at the Grange Hall, 1067 State Road, and a van service will take guests to and from the Old Mill for the reception. Admission to the public exhibit will be $5 at the door. Tickets to the reception are $50, and may be purchased by calling Vito Palermo at 508-939-9522, or by emailing mvgcBloomingArt@gmail.com.
Blooming Art is modeled after the Museum of Fine Art’s Art in Bloom show, an annual celebration of floral arrangements inspired by the Museum’s masterpieces. For four days in late June, the Old Mill in West Tisbury will be transformed into a gallery filled with the art of forty-two Vineyard artists displayed with interpretive floral arrangements created by Garden Club members. All artworks are for sale and proceeds benefit the Garden Club’s Scholarship Fund and the Old Mill Preservation Fund. Participating Artists:
Joan Apt, Leslie Baker, Sandy Bernat, Benjamin Cabot, Eva Cincotta, Paul Doherty, Margot Datz, Angela Egerton, Valentine Estabrook, Margaret Emerson, Sheila M. Fane, Joann Frechette, Mary French, Debra Gaines, Roberta Gross, Genevieve Jacobs, Jay Lagemann, Washington Ledesma, Kanta Lipsky, Ilka List, Dorothy Lubell, Thaw Malin, Majorie Mason, Joyce Maxner, Ellen McCluskey, Marianne Neill, Dorothy Petell, Kathy Poehler, Debby Rosenthal, Judith Drew Schubert, Ed Woody Schulman, Alison Shaw, Susan Silva, Donna Straw, Jane Thame, Katy Upson, Fern Vaughan, Vineyard Colors, Wendy Weldon, Jules Worthington and Peggy Zablotny.
