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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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There aren’t many things that will get me out of bed at 5:30 in the morning. But bagels—or really just the prospect of learning how to make them—is one. Recently, I stood in Wellfleet’s Bagel Hound with owner Ellery Althaus, while the windows were still dark, staring a pile of dough.
Beau Valtz is standing in his Wellfleet kitchen in front of a giant pile of fresh garlic.He's wrapping heads of garlic tightly in tin foil.
Recently I made a visit to the Sandwich fish hatchery. That’s where the state raises trout for stocking in local ponds and rivers and I spoke with Mike Clark who helps breed four different trout varieties.
A primer on Cape Cod clams—local species and how to handle each one in the kitchen.
This week, a young man in Truro on pruning wild blueberries and our relationship with the natural world.
For a long time, skate has been considered trash fish. But with local groundfish like haddock and cod increasingly off the menu, home cooks and local chefs are turning more and more to this tasty shark relative.
It’s that time of year again—we’re deep into storage vegetable season and I’m looking for recipe inspiration.
About ten years ago when farmer Stephanie Rein’s kids were in elementary school in Truro, she noticed something about local garden-based education.
This week on the Local Food Report, adapting Cape Cod menus to changes in local fisheries.
This week on the Local Food Report, a chef gets creative with school lunch.
In the 1960s, Putnam Farm was home to 14 acres of thriving cropland.
This week on the Local Food Report, soil building inspiration all the way from the Amazon.
This week a chef in Provincetown uses walnuts and almonds to create two Italian-inspired after-dinner drinks.
This week, Elspeth gets the holiday scoop from a local ice cream maker.
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.
This week, a Falmouth man heads to the Midwest to meet a rare local fruit.
This week on the Local Food Report, Elspeth’s daughter, Nora Hay, age 9, teaches us to make her favorite fall dish.
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 berries.
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, where he grows over fifty kinds of garlic.
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