Island Grown Schools

Martha’s Vineyard’s farm-to-school program

We seek to raise a new generation of Vineyarders who are connected to local farms and farmers, empowered to make healthy eating choices, informed about the food system, and engaged in growing food for themselves, their families and community. In school gardens, classrooms, on farm field trips, and in the school cafeteria, we help island children deepen their understanding of the land, the sea, and the way food connects people to one another and each of us to the wider world.

Planting a Seed for the Next Generation

We launched IGS in December of 2007, and the program has evolved with great community support since then. IGS is a dynamic program made up of many hundreds of students, teachers, parents, school administrators, farmers, local chefs and more, and we continue to shape and mold this program together as time goes on.