Planned just in time for spring to really blossom on the island, Jan Buhrman, Localvore Educator and Chef extraordinaire and John Bagnulo MPH, PHD, are offering an amazing Living Local experience called Cooking for Vitality. It’s a great opportunity to visit the island and enjoy as the crops and flowers are bursting through. The Vineyard [...]
Village Spotlight: Menemsha

For all of the ‘glitz’ the Vineyard offers…(and by ‘glitz’ I mean manicured, rose covered streets in old whaling villages)…the village of Menemsha offers the most charming absence of glitz this side of the Mississippi. It starts with a long ride down Chilmark’s North Road winding by farms, up and over gently rolling hills. And [...]
The Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rentals Market, 2009
Have you ever noticed how we all get caught up in what the news media is telling us and forget to check in with what’s actually happening? In the case of the current vacation rental market on Martha’s Vineyard, the truth is much brighter than the fiction. Yes, there was some fall off in rental [...]
Economic Trends for Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Rentals

While information about this recession is blaring all over the news, I wanted to give you an honest look at how our current economic situation is affecting vacation rentals on Martha’s Vineyard. The fall of ’08 lost booking momentum with the turn of the stock market. It coincided with the usual post-season slowdown, but, of [...]


