This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth learns about growing shiitake mushrooms in Truro.

Last spring, honeybee keeper Tim Colon of Vineyard Haven emailed me a fascinating recording.

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.

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.

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.

This week on the Local Food Report, a slaughterhouse in Westport.

This week on the Local Food Report, the Jewish feast of Purim.