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The Local Food Report takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policymakers and visionaries. The world of food is changing, fast. As people reimagine their relationships to food, creator Elspeth Hay and editor Viki Merrick aim to rebuild our cultural stores of culinary knowledge — and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Tips from listeners are always welcome.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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The challenge and pleasure of raising sheep

The challenge and pleasure of raising sheep

July 7, 2025 4:46
My friend Drew Locke is a seventh-generation farmer in Truro. He’s always trying new things — partly because he’s curious and partly because even though he comes from a long line of farmers, a lot of intergenerational knowledge has been lost in recent decades and he’s focused on relearning the old ways.
Restoring the American Chestnut

Restoring the American Chestnut

July 7, 2025 4:33
All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers.
The challenge and pleasure of raising sheep

The challenge and pleasure of raising sheep

July 3, 2025 4:46
My friend Drew Locke is a seventh-generation farmer in Truro. He’s always trying new things — partly because he’s curious and partly because even though he comes from a long line of farmers, a lot of intergenerational knowledge has been lost in recent decades and he’s focused on relearning the old ways.
Restoring the American Chestnut

Restoring the American Chestnut

June 26, 2025 4:33
All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers.
The connections between fire and native food plants

The connections between fire and native food plants

June 19, 2025 4:49
Our native forests are full of food. The understories are packed with blueberries and huckleberries and for thousands of years, local overstories have been full of nut trees: hickories and chestnuts and walnuts and oaks.
A farmer on Martha’s Vineyard works to fine-tune the relationships between cattle and grass

A farmer on Martha’s Vineyard works to fine-tune the relationships between cattle and grass

June 12, 2025 4:18
Mob grazing is a strategy Dan Athearn is working with to try to control what’s growing on this unique stretch of grassland. His family took over managing the land with a group of other local growers and cattle farmers in 2021.
A farm family on Martha’s Vineyard reflects on 50 years

A farm family on Martha’s Vineyard reflects on 50 years

June 5, 2025 4:11
When Debbie Athearn’s father bought the 25 acres that started Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown, times were different.
The purple color on local quahog shells—and why it might matter for fisheries management

The purple color on local quahog shells—and why it might matter for fisheries management

May 29, 2025 4:49
Almost fifty years ago, when Haraldur Sigurdsson first came to the University of Rhode Island from Iceland, he got interested in what makes some clam shells more purple than others.
It's pollen season in the kitchen

It's pollen season in the kitchen

May 22, 2025 4:19
My friend Nicole Cormier is a registered dietician and studying for a masters in herbalism. And when she told me she eats pine pollen — and that in fact, it’s one of her favorite things to forage, I had to tag along.
The beautiful, intricate relationships between native bees and native food crops

The beautiful, intricate relationships between native bees and native food crops

May 15, 2025 4:49
Many of our native bees — and a few other surprising insects — evolved with and rely on many native edible species.

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