The Local Food Report

Blueberries and Bumblebees 21.05.2026 4:16 ↓

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.

A beekeeper on Martha’s Vineyard rears his own Queens 07.05.2026 4:45 ↓

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

Acorns, chestnuts, and hickories 17.04.2026 4:10 ↓

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

A perennial vegetable you probably have in your yard 12.03.2026 4:12 ↓

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.

A Portuguese chef teaches students to cook local seafood 05.03.2026 4:42 ↓

This week on the Local Food Report, a chef in New Bedford teaches students to cook with local seafood.

Restoring native meadows 26.02.2026 4:43 ↓

Local Food Report: restoring native meadows

Sourdough discard 19.02.2026 4:49 ↓

Sarah Reynolds North talks about how to take care of sourdough starter and what you can do with it.

Chatham Seafood Cooperative connects dots from boat to plate 12.02.2026 4:31 ↓

For decades now, we’ve been hearing about the broken nature of our New England seafood industry fisherman Brett Tolley of Harwich explains.

Hickory oil 05.02.2026 4:27 ↓

Bitternut hickory trees were one of the most important perennial staple food crops in the eastern U.S. for eight thousand years or more.

How abundant shellfish help create healthy waters 22.01.2026 5:10 ↓

Starting in about 2010, many towns on the Cape began trying to increase shellfish populations and credit them for their nitrogen-removal work.

Rediscovering the Chestnut Mining Bee 15.01.2026 4:50 ↓

The return of a bee that’s co-evolved with American chestnut trees.

Here we come a wassailing 08.01.2026 4:35 ↓

Wassailing has a long and storied history that dates back hundreds of years in the UK.

Turnip latkes from a chef in Orleans 01.01.2026 4:20 ↓

It’s that time of year again—we’re deep into storage vegetable season and I’m looking for recipe inspiration.

Tips for pie makers 25.12.2025 4:22 ↓

Imagine 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.