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- Seed saving tips from local prosBack in 2001, Lauren Leveque and her husband Josh learned to seed save as professionals with High Mowing Seeds in Vermont.5 min
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- Food is medicine on the Outer CapeMelissa Lynch works with Sustainable Cape, a non-profit dedicated to connecting local food to healthy places and people. Since April of 2024, she’s been running the organization’s Food is Medicine program, where Mass Health actually pays Sustainable Cape to deliver some of its patients’ local food:5 min
- This local cactus is edible, but don't harvest itOne 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.5 min
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- Tips for pie makersImagine yourself sitting down to dessert at the end of a holiday feast. What are you looking for in a pie? This is the question a panel of judges in Provincetown asks themselves each year at an event at the Provincetown Commons called Pie Fest.5 min
- A rare local fruit is making its way back to Cape CodThis week, a Falmouth man heads to the Midwest to meet a rare local fruit.5 min
- Making eggnog: time a key ingredientElspeth Hay's great-grandfather kept his eggnog recipe in the safety deposit box - it's that good. This week on The Local Food Report, Elspeth reveals its secrets, and how it got the sexton drunk.5 min
- A re-telling of the Thanksgiving story with an unexpected narratorThis week on the Local Food Report, a re-telling of the Thanksgiving story with an unexpected narrator.6 min
- A Falmouth shepherd, his dog, and their sheepUntil the other day, I’d never thought about how an animal’s diet affects the ways farmers control them. When we talk about the differences between farm animals raised on grass versus grain, we usually focus on health. But there’s also a set of relationships that’s lost when these animals follow the sound of grain in a bucket instead of grazing.6 min
About The Local Food Report
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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.