Elspeth Hay
Host, The Local Food ReportElspeth Hay is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI since 2008, and the author of the forthcoming book Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us. You can learn more about her work at elspethhay.com.
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Every gardener has had the experience of getting all geared up to try something new and exciting—a melon, or a very particular pepper—only to find the seeds don’t even sprout. -
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. -
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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. -
Elspeth talks with an avid gardener about ordering seeds for the upcoming season. -
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.
