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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

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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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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.
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  2. A Mashpee Wampanoag youth group works to protect a beloved fish
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  5. Four trout varieties that are stocked in local waters