The Local Food Report
The Local Food Report takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policymakers and visionaries. The world of food is changing, fast. As people reimagine their relationships to food, creator Elspeth Hay and editor Viki Merrick aim to rebuild our cultural stores of culinary knowledge — and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Tips from listeners are always welcome.
The Local Food Report airs Thursday at 8:35 AM and 5:45 PM and Saturday at 9:35 AM and is made possible by our Local Food Report sponsors.
Latest Stories
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This week on the Local Food Report, a Korean Natural Farming teacher on the relationships that create healthy soil. -
Chris Trump grew up on a 750-acre family macadamia nut farm in Hawaii. His dad took over the farm in 1988, and by the time Chris joined the business in the early 2000s, it was struggling. Profits were low, and chemical use was high. -
Almost twenty years ago, Juli Vanderhoop started cooking with fire."Someone said you bake every day, you gotta build this. Build this oven! And I just said, ‘You’re crazy,’ and I went to an oven build, and I fell in love with this." -
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. -
Benjamin Rapoza tends one of a hundred and forty-five plots at Dartmouth’s Helfand Community Garden. -
Round the Bend Farm is spread over 115 acres in Dartmouth on Buzzards Bay. And it is a working farm but it’s also an educational non-profit. -
This week on the Local Food Report, a chef in New Bedford teaches students to cook with local seafood. -
This week on the Local Food Report, a slaughterhouse in Westport. -
This week on the Local Food Report, the Jewish feast of Purim. -
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.
