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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Hope for a Dairy for Cape Cod

Elspeth Hay

The last commercial dairy on Cape Cod closed in 1971. On the Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay visits Circle Back Farm in Yarmouth Port, where Tanya Daigneault and Don Chapin are working to open a micro-dairy. Once certified, they're hoping to supply milk to forty local families - and eventually even cheese and yogurt.

Find out more about milk cows on Cape Cod on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore.

Elspeth Hay is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI since 2008, and the author of the forthcoming book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us. You can learn more about her work at elspethhay.com.