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What is your full name (first and last)?: alice berlow

What state do you live in?: martha's vineyard

What is your zip code?: 02575

How would you characterize the place where you live?: Rural

What is your primary organization affiliation?: founder and exec. director of Island Grown Initiative, editor of Edible Vineyard

What other food and agriculture organizations are you involved with?: represented member of NSAC

Do you grow any of your own food?: No

Website address #1:: http://www.islandgrown.org

Website address #2:: http://www.ediblevineyard.com

What aspect of food and agriculture are you most passionate about?: building (re)creating infrastructure for farming enterprises, strategic initiatives that benefit farmers, writing.

Ali berlow's Blog

Island Grown Schools - Oak Bluffs, MA

From the planting and harvesting cherry tomatoes for the school cafeteria - to wind power - the new Oak Bluffs school garden is the subject of Susie Middleton's blog on Fine Cooking Magazine's website.

check it out....

http://blogs.taunton.com/fc-farmtofork?entry=63

ali

exec. director Island Grown Initiative

Posted on October 27, 2008 at 6:00am

Lopez Island, Bruce Dunlop and USDA approved mobile slaughter

Island Grown Initiative's inspiration, friend and supporter - Bruce Dunlop is in today's WSJ featuring Lopez Island's USDA approved mobile slaughtering unit. Proof positive that together - small steps in our own backyards can make meaningful progress in supporting small family farmers and provide good food for our tables.

Read about it at...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122054916174600403.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone

Here on the Vineyard, we started purposefully… Continue

Posted on September 5, 2008 at 10:30am

Taioba and Jiló premiere at the 147th Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair

It's inevitably hot and hectic, dusty and bittersweet - these four days of waning summer on the Vineyard during the Agricultural Fair held in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

Thousands of visitors, including island and off-island farmers come from all over for the Midway, the ox pulls, the woodman's contest. These are the last tingling date-nights of summer loves and the first ferris wheel rides for the littlest of ones. Clouds of cotton candy and funnels of fried dough tip and turn like… Continue