A centuries-old Portuguese ritual rich with history, pageantry, and, most definitely, food.

Landscaping can direct major rainfalls to places where plants can use the water later.

An expert makes the case for eating "micro-livestock."

The hub offers food from 20 farms in the region.

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.

On a Cape Cod blueberry farm, a newly arrived colony of bumblebees takes flight, beginning the careful work that transforms spring flowers into summer fruit.

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

We look at acorns, chestnuts, and hickories on the commercial food scene.

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.