Mary Sage Napolitan

Mary Sage Napolitan

Island Grown Initiative

Mary Sage is the Regenerative Landscape Manager at Island Grown Farm, a program of Island Grown Initiative, on Martha’s Vineyard. In her role at IGI, she works to design, implement, and maintain projects that serve to enhance the ecological health, biodiversity, functionality, and universal accessibility of the farm landscape. Her work on the farm includes restoring native plant communities to support native pollinators and wildlife species, propagating native plants, implementing landscape-based nutrient management and water conservation strategies, and managing a multispecies permaculture orchard.

Mary Sage earned her Masters of Science in Ecological Landscape Design and Planning from the Conway School. In addition to her work at IGI, she now also works independently as a landscape designer and steward, managing home food gardens and conducting ecological analysis and design for landscape-based projects on Martha’s Vineyard, including affordable housing developments, public spaces, and private residences.