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Summer population up 69 percent, but workforce down

By Charlotte Van Voorhis

The Inquirer & Mirror (August 5, 2022) — They are numbers that describe life on this island and the growth that seems to be changing that way of life. They reflect a 69 percent increase in the island’s peak summertime population between 2014 and 2021, and a 13 percent decline in the seasonal workforce, reported…

ReMain Ventures Purchases 5 Amelia Drive

By Charlotte Van Voorhis

NANTUCKET, Mass. July 25, 2022 — With the goal of improving local and regional food systems on Nantucket and across the Northeast, ReMain Ventures has purchased 5 Amelia Drive as a site for a business incubator and commissary kitchen, the organization announced today. ReMain Ventures will work with Nantucket entrepreneur Karen Macumber to create…

Food Insecurity Report: A look at the food system on Nantucket, starting with food insecurity

By Claire Martin

Remain grants have funded opportunities to better understand the island’s food system. In partnership with Nantucket Resource Partnership, Remain has underwritten several studies with Process First to study food insecurity, the transportation of food on the island and how data can improve the communications supporting the demand for food and growing schedules for island farmers.…

How Nantucket Eats: Food Security Demand Mapping

By Claire Martin

After the publication of The Food Insecurity Report: A Look at the Food System on Nantucket, Starting with Food Insecurity, Remain continued to fund research in partnership with Nantucket Resource Partnership and Process First. The second report digs deeper to better understand how much food is grown on Nantucket and how we can better support our…

100 Mile Makers moving to Annye’s as Pip & Anchor

By Charlotte Van Voorhis

The Inquirer and Mirror (April 1, 2021) — There are about 200 farms within 100 miles of Nantucket, but most of the vegetables Mayumi Hattori finds at Stop & Shop are from California. As the former head chef of The Club Car, Hattori built a philosophy around using food grown locally or in New England,…