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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Garlic scapes are in season at the Truro Farmers Market, and there are so many good ways to cook them. -
Landscaping can direct major rainfalls to places where plants can use the water later. -
Cooking with oily fish is tricky. But when you get it right, it’s so good. -
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. -
The town of Harwich has opened a recreational herring fishery for the first time in twenty years. -
Last spring, honeybee keeper Tim Colon of Vineyard Haven emailed me a fascinating recording. -
This week on the Local Food Report, we explore the benefits of gardening for kids with special needs. -
There aren’t many things that will get me out of bed at 5:30 in the morning. But bagels—or really just the prospect of learning how to make them—is one. Recently, I stood in Wellfleet’s Bagel Hound with owner Ellery Althaus, while the windows were still dark, staring a pile of dough. -
We look at acorns, chestnuts, and hickories on the commercial food scene.
