Podcasts by The Local Food Report
The Local Food Report can be heard every Thursday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. From farmers' markets to backyard gardens, wild forage to home kitchen recipes, the Local Food Report explores the Cape, Islands, and South Coast to find out what's in season and what to do with it.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.
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A rare local fruit is making its way back to Cape Cod from 2023-11-30T07:49:23
This week, a Falmouth man heads to the Midwest to meet a rare local fruit.
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Nora Hay, age 9, teaches us to make her favorite fall dish from 2023-11-23T08:35:52
This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth’s daughter, Nora Hay, age 9, teaches us to make her favorite fall dish.
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A powerful but often overlooked wild berry from 2023-11-16T08:18:40
I’m walking the back roads of Truro with my friend Nicole Cormier, who works as a dietician and is studying herbalism. We’re looking for something called Aronia which grows dark purple almost black...
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Blue ribbon garlic winner reveals tips for growing bigger cloves from 2023-11-09T06:43
Ben Chung is obsessed with garlic. He lives in East Orleans with his wife, six kids, and uncle, and he works as a dentist. But when he’s not cleaning teeth, he’s outside working in his garden, wher...
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Tips for beginning mushroom hunters from a Wellfleet enthusiast from 2023-11-02T10:15:22
I’m walking the woods on a beautiful fall day looking for fungi with Alex Emmons.He points out dead oak trees and explains how they have a symbiotic relationship with mushrooms.
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Bumblebee diversity necessary for food security from 2023-10-26T06:57:32
For decades, Anne Averill has been researching how our agricultural systems impact native bees. More specifically, she's been studying the diversity and abundance of bumblebees for 30 years now.
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Making kombucha from scratch from 2023-10-12T06:25
Amy Costa of Truro got into fermentation kind of accidentally. She had just stopped working as a bartender but wanted to keep creating drinks and her friend was brewing kombucha from a kit.
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A surprising way to get more veggies from 2023-09-28T08:39:14
We were talking about cucumbers — I’ve had a really productive season and I was trying to figure out why — and he mentioned that how frequently you pick from your plants can impact how many fruits ...
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Seed Ordering: Apple varieties that grow on Cape Cod from 2022-03-25T11:28:35
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.
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Diversity thrives in a community garden from 2022-03-18T10:56:13
Benjamin Rapoza tends one of a hundred and forty-five plots at Dartmouth’s Helfand Community Garden.
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This local cactus is edible, but don't harvest it from 2022-03-04T10:41:47
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 al...
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It's time to order your seeds from 2022-02-11T10:59:06
Around this time every year, Elspeth talks with a local farmer or gardener about what they’re planning for the upcoming growing season. This week, she sits down with a Wellfleet gardener and restau...
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A visit to a chocolate factory in Truro from 2022-01-21T11:22:24
Katie Reed and Josiah Mayo don’t make your typical mass-produced chocolate.
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A local men's cooking group misses the connection of food from 2022-01-13T07:02:43
When Charlie Moeder first got involved with the Chatham Harwich Newcomers Club Men’s Cooking group, he volunteered to run the sign-up booth at the Newcomers general meeting.
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Clearing up confusion around pregnancy and local seafood from 2022-01-07T11:37:27
The other night I had dinner with a friend who’s expecting a baby. The conversation turned to seafood — what’s safe to eat and why it’s important during pregnancy.
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Holiday pies and memories from 2021-12-23T11:21:46
This time of year, I miss my grandmother. When I was a kid Biee always came to visit for Christmas and she spent most of her time in the kitchen.
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The joys and frustrations of seed saving from 2021-12-17T10:52:19
The other day I finally put my garden to bed. While I ripped out the skeletons of tomatoes and tucked away eggplant cages for another season, I noticed some of my plants had gone to seed.
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A plant breeder thinks he’s changing corn, only to realize it’s changing him from 2021-10-29T07:39:18
Walter Goldstein became interested in corn in the 1980s. “I started working with all sorts of corn breeders, I started learning from them, teaching myself how to breed the corn.
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A Mashpee Wampanoag woman reconnects with a traditional corn from 2021-10-22T09:59:16
For years now, Danielle Hill has felt corn reaching out. The plant has visited her in her dreams, and helped her through pregnancy and post-partum care. And for a while, corn was simply offering gi...
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A Love Affair with Quail Eggs from 2021-09-30T07:21
When Laura Geiges was a little girl, her mom used to bring home something special from New York City’s China Town. It was quail eggs.
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Spearfishing for Tautog from 2021-09-16T13:41:01
Sara and Dean Moran of Wellfleet are sitting half in Cape Cod bay, half out, taking a break from fishing on a pile of rocks.Dean has a fish in his hand. It’s a tautog. Also known as tow-tog or blac...
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Two Greek Farmers Bring Their Harvest to Cape Cod from 2021-09-09T12:59:06
I found an amazing source for dried figs and olive at our local farmers market. Maria Lemanis grew up on Cape Cod. But her extended family is from Greece, and once she finished school she moved bac...
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A Fig Tree Grows in Wellfleet from 2021-08-06T10:56:38
To plant a fig tree in our climate is an act of faith. Most figs are native to the tropics—and in the heat and sweat of this world they do amazing things. They’ve co-evolved with a wasp that crawls...
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Using Rosehips Like Tomatoes from 2021-07-29T09:10:03
The other afternoon I took my girls to walk the bayside beach. They snacked on sea beans and beach plums and I filled my t-shirt with the fruits of rosa rugosa. The hips are big this time of year a...
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A Common Wild Berry Brings a Range of Delicious Flavors from 2021-07-09T10:50:40
It’s high season for a common wild berry with a whole lot of names.
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Foraging for Elderberry Flowers from 2021-06-17T09:27:03
This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth drives the back roads of the Outer Cape with a forager looking for elderberry flowers.
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A Hen Goes Broody from 2021-05-13T13:10:47
This week on the Local Food Report, a hen goes broody and Elspeth hatches chicks.
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Creating Drought-Resistant Raised Beds from 2021-05-06T08:00:23
This week on The Local Food Report, Elspeth learns about building drought-resistant raised beds.
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Cooking with a Little-Known Wild Edible from 2021-04-24T07:42:34
I first tasted milkweed a few years ago. I was at Ceraldi in Wellfleet—a restaurant known for its focus on hyper-local ingredients— and I tried the plants’ shoots. They were bright and snappy and s...
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Hunting for Hazelnuts from 2021-04-15T08:09:16
This week on the Local Food Report, a naturalist takes Elspeth hunting for hazelnuts.
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Hunting for Watercress in the Herring River from 2021-04-08T07:31:50
Elspeth Hay goes foraging for the watercress in the Herring River in Wellfleet.
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Foraging Ideas for Spring from 2021-04-01T07:38:21
Foraging ideas for spring on The Local Food Report.
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Migratory Beekeeping from 2021-03-18T07:25:57
Twenty-five hundred miles away in California right now, a million acres of almond trees are blooming. And migratory honeybee keepers from all over the country—including those from eastern Massachus...
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Experimenting with Chestnut Flour from 2021-03-11T13:51:03
This week, Elspeth talks with a Falmouth cook who’s experimenting with chestnut flour.
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Seed Recommendations for the Upcoming Growing Season from 2021-03-04T10:16:50
Naomi Robbins of the Wellfleet Public Library’s Curbside Seeds program is looking forward to spring. She’s ordered over 120 varieties from six different seed companies, and she’s eager to share them:
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Scramble for Seeds Reinvigorates Local Seed Library from 2021-02-25T10:15:37
This week on The Local Food Report, a scramble for seeds and how it’s reinvigorated a local seed library.
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Seed Ordering: Apple Varieties from 2021-02-18T07:27:02
Brent Hemeon has five acres in Harwich. And everywhere you look, there are apple trees.
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Wellfleet Chef Brings Back Ancient Fermented Fish Sauce from 2021-02-11T06:39
Today, most people throw away the skeletons and innards of our fish. But in Ancient Rome, these parts weren't trash—they were food. This week on The Local Food Report, Elspeth talks with a chef fro...
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A COVID-inspired Shellfish Market in Wellfleet Creates Community Connections and Helps the Industry from 2021-02-04T08:10:54
The pandemic has hit shellfishermen hard. Revenues for oysters in particular are down—as much as 50 percent in 2020—mostly because of restaurant closures. That’s been a challenge for small growers ...
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You Won't Believe It - But There's Coffee Growing in Hyannis! from 2021-01-21T07:42:51
Remember, we had a local food report about a persimmon tree? We asked you to contact us about other strange or different plants you've seen growing locally?
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Making Language Come Alive with Food from 2021-01-14T07:04:07
Shortly after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Julio Cruz and his family moved to the Outer Cape. With Spanish as his first language, Julio enrolled in an English as a second language class at Naus...
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The Forest Garden: Restoration Agriculture In Your Backyard from 2021-01-07T07:50:12
I’m standing on the edge of about an eighth acre covered in wood chips and newly planted trees and shrubs at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary. It doesn’t look like much now, but Sanctuary Director I...
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Haddock Chowder Born from the Pandemic from 2020-12-31T07:55:31
For years now, local haddock have been plentiful. But while the stock is big and healthy, the individual fish are small. Eric Hess, a haddock fisherman from West Barnstable explains.
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Holiday Tradition Tastes Like Rum Pie from 2020-12-24T08:27:57
I’ve been thinking a lot the past few weeks about my grandmother. Biee as we called her, or Bobby Cary—was an excellent cook. She lived in Virginia, far away from my parents in Maine—and after my g...
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Connecting Our Farming and Fishing Communities with Fertilizer from 2020-12-17T06:16
Nicole Cormier stands in the rain on a cold, windy day, pulling fish bones out of a big tub that she just picked up from a local fish cutter.
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Try Making These Unusual Homemade Gifts This Holiday Season from 2020-12-10T06:22
My mom’s friend Genie says the best gifts are “comestibles,” things that can be devoured and quickly disappear. She’s right.
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Pheasant Hunting in the Cape Cod National Seashore from 2020-12-03T07:53
This time of year, it’s still dark when Patrick Rickaby and his springer Ada leave home. They climb out of Patrick’s truck at dawn deep in the heart of Cape Cod National Seashore. Ada’s a bird dog,...
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Wampanoag Cooking with Local Tree Nuts from 2020-11-26T07:46
People don’t typically think about eating nuts that grow in our local woods. Before Europeans arrived, the forests of Cape Cod were more diverse. Stands of nut-bearing hickories, walnuts, beeches, ...
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Purple Quahog Mystery from 2020-11-19T07:50:56
For hundreds of years, Wampanoag people have relied on quahogs both for food and for making wampum, traditional purple shell beads. But recently, Chuckie Green has been wondering if these two uses ...
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Local Apple Varieties with a Claim on History and Flavor from 2020-11-12T08:24:17
Peter Burgess is as interested in the history of farming as he is in the practice itself. His farm in Truro is called Sixpence Farm, after a silver coin he found in the soil that dates back to 1689...
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A Community Approach to Farmland from 2020-11-05T07:46
The Agrarian Trust is a national land trust trying to reimagine American land ownership. As American farm land becomes consolidated into fewer and fewer hands, the trust wants to help communities m...
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A Sensory Adventure from the Woods of Wellfleet to a Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia from 2020-10-29T07:32
Last fall I noticed an unusual fruit tree. It was growing in Wellfleet in a protected courtyard, and there were bright orange fruits the size of golf balls hanging in the branches.
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