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Claire Martin Claire Martin

Stories From Ashore: Low-Maintenance Meadows and Vegetable Gardens Are Gaining Momentum as Part of Nantucket's Resilient Future

While a majority of Nantucket gardens are based on homeowner’s aesthetic preferences and not always native, native plants are well adapted to local environmental conditions and they serve as a scaffolding from which entire ecosystems are built. And there are two female gardeners leading the movement. Leigh Marr, operator of Artemisia Gardening and Luci Imbach, Owner and operator of Island Harvest Vegetable Gardens spoke with Morgan about Nantucket landscape industry’s “ecological and edible renaissance.”

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