When we think of bees, most of us think of fields, farms, and honey. But many of our native bee species don’t make honey and the plants they pollinate live not just in fields or on farms but also in swamps and forests.

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.

This week marks the start of Passover. The first celebratory meal, known as the Seder, involves reading a sacred text called the Haggadah.

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.

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.

One 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.