The Local Food Report

Amateur cooks get by with a little “kelp” from their friends and the results are pretty tasty.

Garlic scapes are in season at the Truro Farmers Market, and there are so many good ways to cook them.

A centuries-old Portuguese ritual rich with history, pageantry, and, most definitely, food.

Landscaping can direct major rainfalls to places where plants can use the water later.

An expert makes the case for eating "micro-livestock."

The hub offers food from 20 farms in the region.

For more than a hundred years, the state has been stocking ponds all over the Cape and Islands with locally raised trout. Mike Clark of Plymouth helps breed these fish at a series of outdoor pools in Sandwich.

On a Cape Cod blueberry farm, a newly arrived colony of bumblebees takes flight, beginning the careful work that transforms spring flowers into summer fruit.

Last spring, honeybee keeper Tim Colon of Vineyard Haven emailed me a fascinating recording.

We look at acorns, chestnuts, and hickories on the commercial food scene.

You know hostas? Those broad-leafed, perennial plants landscapers so often put in shady spots, or on the edges between gardens and lawns? Well, it turns out hosta shoots are edible. Really.

This week on the Local Food Report, a chef in New Bedford teaches students to cook with local seafood.

Local Food Report: restoring native meadows

Sarah Reynolds North talks about how to take care of sourdough starter and what you can do with it.

For decades now, we’ve been hearing about the broken nature of our New England seafood industry fisherman Brett Tolley of Harwich explains.

Bitternut hickory trees were one of the most important perennial staple food crops in the eastern U.S. for eight thousand years or more.

Starting in about 2010, many towns on the Cape began trying to increase shellfish populations and credit them for their nitrogen-removal work.

The return of a bee that’s co-evolved with American chestnut trees.

Wassailing has a long and storied history that dates back hundreds of years in the UK.

It’s that time of year again—we’re deep into storage vegetable season and I’m looking for recipe inspiration.

Imagine yourself sitting down to dessert at the end of a holiday feast. What are you looking for in a pie? This is the question a panel of judges in Provincetown asks themselves each year at an event at the Provincetown Commons called Pie Fest.

This week, Elspeth gets the holiday scoop from a local ice cream maker.

Lesley Marchessault of Provincetown has gotten serious about her biscuit recipes.

This week on the Local Food Report: cranberry pies in Provincetown.

A program that provides local food to people whose SNAP benefits run dry

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."