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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

A Resort Tries Farm to Table on Cape Cod

CAI | By Elspeth Hay
Published March 14, 2013 at 7:00 AM EDT
Elspeth Hay

Farm-to-table restaurants are incredibly popular right now. On The Local Food Report, Elspeth Hay talks with farmers and chefs at the Chatham Bars Inn resort, which recently bought a 7.7 acre farm. Will a large scale farm-to-table model work here, where soil is sandy and land prices are high?

For more information, check out Elspeth's blog, Diary of A Locavore.

    
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Elspeth Hay
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.
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