News and Events for Nantucket Island
or many Nantucketers, summer doesn’t officially start until that first bite of Bartlett’s sweet corn, so fresh you can eat it raw—and if you ask the Bartlett family, that’s exactly how they prefer it.
Corn season is just around the corner, with Bartlett’s signature sweet corn expected to be ready for harvest by mid- July: one of the busiest times of year on Nantucket’s oldest and largest farm.
Oh man, what was I thinking to book a 6 am fishing charter on a Saturday? Well, it had to be, as some medical appointments had shuffled my week pretty thoroughly. I somehow woke up a minute before my alarm went off. Now I’m not flexing here, but this ability is something of a superpower. I was fairly beat from bass fishing the night before. Maybe not my wisest decision to go but those stripers aren’t going to catch themselves, right?
