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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

Falmouth Farmer Grows Ginger in Heated Greenhouse

Elizabeth Pierson

 

  Ginger is native to the tropics. But that doesn't mean we can't grow it on the Cape. Two years ago, Coonamessett Farm Manager Stan Ingram read an article about a farmer in Maine growing ginger, and this year he decided to try it. This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth talks with Stan about the challenges of growing ginger in our cold climate. The finished crop tastes similar to mature ginger, but looks quite different. 

If you're interested in reading more about ginger farms in New England, here are two links. This links to the website of a ginger farm in Amherst, Massachusetts, and here's the article Stan read about farmers experimenting with growing ginger in greenhouses in Maine.

You can see more pictures of the ginger plants at Coonamessett Farm on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore. 

This piece is a rebroadcast. It originally aired Jan. 15, 2014.

An avid locavore, Elspeth lives in Wellfleet and writes a blog about food. Elspeth is constantly exploring the Cape, Islands, and South Coast and all our farmer's markets to find out what's good, what's growing and what to do with it. Her Local Food Report airs Thursdays at 8:30 on Morning Edition and 5:45pm on All Things Considered, as well as Saturday mornings at 9:30.