The Local Food Report
The Local Food Report takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policymakers and visionaries. The world of food is changing, fast. As people reimagine their relationships to food, creator Elspeth Hay and editor Viki Merrick aim to rebuild our cultural stores of culinary knowledge — and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Tips from listeners are always welcome.
The Local Food Report airs Thursday at 8:35 AM and 5:45 PM and Saturday at 9:35 AM and is made possible by our Local Food Report sponsors.
Latest Stories
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The other day I finally put my garden to bed. While I ripped out the skeletons of tomatoes and tucked away eggplant cages for another season, I noticed some of my plants had gone to seed. -
This time of year, it’s still dark when Patrick Rickaby and his springer Ada leave home. They climb out of Patrick’s truck at dawn deep in the heart of Cape Cod National Seashore. -
A program that provides local food to people whose SNAP benefits run dry -
The Farmers Land Trust is a way to change to the usual way that farmland is owned. -
A lot of native nut trees in Eastern North America need fire to regenerate. Now researchers are asking, how will American Chestnut trees respond to burning? -
I’m walking the back roads of Truro with my friend Nicole Cormier, who works as a dietician and is studying herbalism. We’re looking for something called Aronia which grows dark purple almost black berries. -
Amy Costa of Truro got into fermentation kind of accidentally. She had just stopped working as a bartender but wanted to keep creating drinks and her friend was brewing kombucha from a kit. -
This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long provided. -
Carrie Richter of Peach Tree Circle Farm in Falmouth is a self-proclaimed garlic fanatic."It makes every dish better. There's nothing about garlic that I don't like." -
In this week's Local Food Report, Hal Minis shares why we should be tending to apple trees.
