The Local Food Report

This week on the Local Food Report, a Korean Natural Farming teacher on the relationships that create healthy soil.

John Bunker has spent the past fifty years learning everything he can about North American apple varieties.

Earlier this year, I finally made the journey north to meet John Bunker — a farmer in his 70s who arguably knows more about apple varieties than almost anyone alive in New England today.

This week on the Local Food Report, a naturalist takes Elspeth hunting for hazelnuts.

This week part three of a mini-series on big picture local food issues—today with a focus on what we can change with a little hyper-local creativity.

This week on the Local Food Report, weekend meals to help hungry kids.

Liz Wiley is executive director of the Marion Institute — a non-profit focused on improving human and environmental health and food quality in southeastern Massachusetts. And when I asked her what she’s working on right now, she said regional communication.

This week part one of a mini-series on big picture local food issues—starting with the shellfish industry.

Years ago, Lou Quattrucci’s neighbor came home from a trip to Italy with a gift. It was a bottle of creamy limoncello.

Around this time every year, Elspeth talks with a local farmer or gardener about ordering seeds for the upcoming growing season. This year, she’s branched into aquaculture.

You’ve probably heard that you’re supposed to prune fruit trees. But did you know that it’s also important to prune berries?

I sat down with Russell Norton a horticulture and agriculture educator with the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and started by asking him: why do we prune?

Back in 2001, Lauren Leveque and her husband Josh learned to seed save as professionals with High Mowing Seeds in Vermont.

This week on the Local Food Report, five ways to eat a cabbage.

Melissa Lynch works with Sustainable Cape, a non-profit dedicated to connecting local food to healthy places and people. Since April of 2024, she’s been running the organization’s Food is Medicine program, where Mass Health actually pays Sustainable Cape to deliver some of its patients’ local food:

One fall, I lead a foraging walk with visiting fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. I pointed out Prickly Pear Cactus — a plant that I’ve heard you can eat, but that we’re not allowed to harvest in Massachusetts, because here it’s considered an endangered species.

This week on the Local Food Report, five ways to eat a cabbage.

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, a Falmouth man heads to the Midwest to meet a rare local fruit.

Elspeth Hay's great-grandfather kept his eggnog recipe in the safety deposit box - it's that good. This week on The Local Food Report, Elspeth reveals its secrets, and how it got the sexton drunk.