The Vineyard Crazy Season Has Begun: Finding My Sanity in the Garden
Plus growing tips, gardening with an old dog, and a recipe straight from the garden.
It’s hard to explain to off-Islanders why the summer is so crazy on Martha’s Vineyard. But it all boils down to one thing: money. Almost every year-round Islander depends on income made in the high season to get through the winter. In the summer, every business, small or big, tries to take advantage of the population explosion – from 20,000 to 120,000 – to make a profit or just stay afloat. Everyone works twice as many hours.
It’s no different at a publishing company. We produce twice as many publications in the high season as we do in the winter because the advertising dollars are there to support them. Add events on to that – not only the events we host, but the ones we must attend to support the network we thrive on — and the smashed-together deadlines and extracurricular obligations make your head spin. It’s nuts.
Every year the craziness starts earlier. The high season used to be July and August. Now it starts in May and goes through September.
This week I was suddenly rifling through my closet for dresses – three different ones for three different events, all of which were occurring while I was trying to get three different publications finished.
