The Local Food Report

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.

Experimenting with acorn flour.

This week on The Local Food Report, Elspeth learns about building drought-resistant raised beds.

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.

Local Food Report: restoring native meadows

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.