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Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival

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Every fall some of the best chef’s in New England,including special guests, such as Napa Valley Vintner Joseph Carr and celebrity Chef and Hobby-Farmer, Suvir Saran, come to Martha’s Vineyard to take part in the annual Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival (MVFW). The four day event includes grand tastings, a sommelier throw down, wine pairings, and much more. For a full list of events CLICK HERE

According to Christina Cook, President of the Edgartown Board of Trade, “This event is a unique [festival]… this is a festival of heart and soul, around food, wine and more importantly, this Island.”  The Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival was originally created to promote Island Grown Schools, which promotes local sustainability, making healthy food choices, and much more within the schools on Martha’s Vineyard.

 

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Feature Fridays ~ Easy Summer Living In Chilmark

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Property #2074

Property #2074

Savor the good life in this tranquil dwelling in Chilmark.  Easily accessible from South Road, this property offers all the amenities and a floor plan perfect for easy summer living. Enjoy perfect vineyard nights while entertaining in the open kitchen or spacious sunroom with oversized seating for those lazy days of summer and views of the pool area and lovely English garden. Laze around the pool with a good book, or surrender to the surf at any of the pristine beaches on Island.  Just a short distance to the West Tisbury town center which offers a great farmer’s market on Wednesday and Saturday mornings and just a few more miles to Lucy Vincent and Squibnocket beaches.

 

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Martha’s Vineyard LINGO: Up-Island & Down-Island

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On Martha’s Vineyard, we speak our own island language…
When you arrive on the island, you’ll discover quickly that the island has been divided, more or less, into two parts: up-island and down-island.

Up-Island
When you hear someone say ‘up-island,’ they are referring to the towns of West Tisbury, Aquinnah, Chilmark and it’s small fishing harbor, Menemsha. The up-island towns are quiet, quaint and slow with each town center consisting, primarily, of town hall, the library, the post office and a few choice stores, galleries, restaurants and inns.

The houses up-island are spread out and often secluded, and the landscape features forests, rolling hills, farms and beach highlights like the cliffs in Aquinnah. When you’re up-island, you’ll spend time in your car or on your bike fetching groceries and glimpsing civilization…but, only if you want to.

Down-Island
Down-island refers to Edgartown, Vineyard Haven (Tisbury) and Oak Bluffs. These three towns are known for their bustling and unique ‘downtowns’ packed with dynamic shopping, art, food, dining and entertainment. With an abundance of summer traffic, people and cars, their is also an endless list of things to do and see.

While there are quiet beaches to be found, the main down-island beaches, State Beach in Oak Bluffs and South Beach in Edgartown/Katama, are bustling with people, beach games and surf from dawn to dusk.

And…just to make things a little more interesting, there’s a small island off the coast of Edgartown called Chappaquiddick, or ‘Chappy’, that serves as the ‘up-island’ of Edgartown. It’s small and quiet. There aren’t many cars, houses are spread out and the beaches are incredible.