West Tisbury School

The West Tisbury School’s East fields are home to the school’s 360 students and are the heart of the Island’s recreational soccer program. This program supports 300 children ages 4-10 (as well as their families!). The fields are in use by the rec program Monday-Friday afternoons, and all day on Saturday throughout the fall (7 weeks) and spring (8 weeks) seasons. While the drainage, grass cover, and soil composition have come a long way over the past year and a half, one ongoing challenge for this site are the underground tree stumps (vestiges from when the woods were originally clear-cut), that decompose causing wide, sunken areas. Like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, we need to regularly fill and overseed those areas.