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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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." -
Beau Valtz is standing in his Wellfleet kitchen in front of a giant pile of fresh garlic.He's wrapping heads of garlic tightly in tin foil. -
The other day, my girls and I visited our friend Stephen Spear at his pick-your-own blueberry farm in Dennis. He walked us out to the woods alongside the fields, where a box of bumblebees had just arrived from Michigan. -
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 marks the start of Passover. The first celebratory meal, known as the Seder, involves reading a sacred text called the Haggadah. -
As many of us have taken off our masks, the everyday cold has begun to circulate again. As you can probably hear I have one now, and it’s like I’ve forgotten how to be sick. -
This week on the Local Food Report, a Wellfleet woman remembers a trip to her dad’s Ukrainian hometown and worries about what the war with Russia means for food. -
Brent Hemeon has five acres in Harwich and everywhere you look, there are apple trees. He has around 175 of them and started his garden in 1990, but then it got big. "Too big,” he says. -
Benjamin Rapoza tends one of a hundred and forty-five plots at Dartmouth’s Helfand Community Garden. -
This week on the Local Food Report, a naturalist takes Elspeth hunting for hazelnuts.
