Hello, Nantucket!

Pollination. It’s good for us, of course — 35% of the world’s food crops depend on pollinators having healthy ecosystems. In this Green Guide, we have several stories that seek to do just that — provide the best possible conditions for pollinators to do their work. Healthy soil, restored bogs, parks and preserves with unsegmented pollinator pathways, advice on how to install outdoor lighting to keep bugs and birds happy. 

We also benefit from metaphorical pollination — that delightful result when passionate people come to us with ideas and we meet and in the end, come up with stories that become more than the sum of their parts. 

It’s where contributing editor Will Kinsella tells us we should do “something about architectural salvage” and editor/reporter Britt Bowker finds a whole network striving to repurpose construction waste. Intern Anna Popnikolova germinates maybe 40 ideas a week (not much of an exaggeration), and in meetings and on comments on Google doc “slush piles” we hone them into stories you’ll find here — how the new food space, The Hive, is serving the community; how Anna and a group of her friends buy only second hand clothes and have fun (and a fashion show) in the process. Writer/photographer Sam Moore finds Nantucket birders talking to their Martha’s Vineyard counterparts about which birds are passing through, tk. 

So much collaboration, well, pollination, making ideas come to fruition. 

We hope you enjoy the result! It’s been a blast working on this magazine, and getting to know Nantucket even better. Thank you to Remain for being such a great supporter, to all our many advertisers, our Field Note contributors, to Bill Hoenk for all his gorgeous work, and to you, our readers.

Have a great summer, and don’t forget to sign up for our biweekly Nantucket newsletter, or our weekly Bluedot Living Kitchen newsletter: bluedotliving.com/sign-up-for-our-newsletters.

See you next time.

– Jamie Kageleiry (and Britt Bowker)