Around this time every year, Elspeth talks with a local farmer or gardener about ordering seeds for the upcoming growing season. This year, she’s branched into aquaculture.

Oyster seed ordering for the spring

This week on the Local Food Report, adapting Cape Cod menus to changes in local fisheries.

Adapting Cape Cod menus to changes in local fisheries

This week on the Local Food Report, soil building inspiration all the way from the Amazon.

Soil building inspiration from the Amazon

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.

Clearing up confusion around pregnancy and local seafood

This week on the Local Food Report, a chef gets creative with school lunch.

A chef gets creative with school lunch

Elspeth 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.

Making Eggnog: Time a key ingredient

Josh Leveque and his family keep a few goats and time to time you’ll see an irresistible if incongruous photo of the goats at the beach…

Reconsidering goat milk

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.

The joys and frustrations of seed saving

This week on the Local Food Report, a re-telling of the Thanksgiving story with an unexpected narrator.

A re-telling of the Thanksgiving story with an unexpected narrator

This week, Elspeth talks with a Falmouth cook who’s experimenting with chestnut flour.

Cooking with chestnut flour

Winter squash is everywhere these days. I find it in my soup and folded into pies, it’s hidden in the guise of muffins and sweetbreads.

A glossary of the winter squashes on Cape Cod

Gianni Bisone of Truro grew up in Italy. His whole family is from there.

Making mushroom risotto

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.

A love affair with quail eggs

Tracy Sylvester wants to change the way we think about frozen fish.

What flash freezing means for fish

I have a friend in Barnstable who’s always telling me about unusual edible plants, particularly perennials. Recently, he told me he’s planting something new called a Cornelian Cherry.

Cornelian Cherries

When Brewster farmer Ron Backer first read about honeynut squash, he knew he wanted to grow it.

A tiny squash that's packed with flavor

What if I told you I’ve been making grape pie? Would you believe me? Or, like my mother, would you need me to cut you a slice, to prove it?

Grape pie, a true delight

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 blackfish. It’s actually a really good eating fish.

Spearfishing for Tautog

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 back to the old country to work on her family’s farm.

Two Greek farmers bring their harvest to Cape Cod

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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