The Local Food Report

Preserving figs in a year of abundance

What to do when you get too many figs at once.

Tips for beginning mushroom hunters from a Wellfleet enthusiast

Looking for fungi with Alex Emmons.

One delicious crab

This week on the Local Food Report: it’s a duel of appetites in a new documentary about delicious but destructive green crabs.

Eating wild black cherries, pits and all

There must be some good way to eat them, I started thinking, because historically people have always tended to use what’s available, and for centuries, wild black cherrie

The underappreciated Cornelian cherry

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 Corn

The underappreciated Cornelian cherry

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 Corn

A fizzy fermented drink made from leftover bread

Helen loved kvass. The flavor, the fizz, everything about this drink made from fermenting stale bread with water and sugar. But when she got home, she forgot about it for

Remembering Wellfleet’s historic herring run

This week on the Local Food Report, we learn about Wellfleet’s historic herring run.

Baking in jail builds connection

This week on the Local Food Report, Cape Cod jail inmates find connection and hope in a program baking for those in need.

Huckleberries are tasty and often overlooked

The small, black relatives of the blueberry grow all over the Cape and Islands.

Cooking with kelp

Amateur cooks get by with a little “kelp” from their friends and the results are pretty tasty.

Cooking with garlic scapes

Garlic scapes are in season at the Truro Farmers Market, and there are so many good ways to cook them.

A feast of royalty, religion, and community

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

Holding onto rain for food security

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

Insects as food

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

Growing a local food hub

The hub offers food from 20 farms in the region.

A fish hatchery in Sandwich among the oldest in the country

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

Blueberries and Bumblebees

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

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

Acorns, chestnuts, and hickories

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