Elspeth Hay

A few years ago, a Philadelphia arborist named Max Paschall read an article about a man named John Hershey. Hershey ran a tree nursery and experimental farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s.

Mercy Reed grew up on the water in Nantucket Sound. "I grew up a fisher person, you know, we were shellfisher people, and, steamers, specifically quahogs," she said.

Several years ago in Maine during the pandemic, I met a woman named Lisa Willey who was experimenting with eating acorns.

Farmers, gardeners, and landscapers on adapting their growing practices and crops as our climate changes

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

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.

This week a chef in Provincetown uses walnuts and almonds to create two Italian-inspired after-dinner drinks.

One fall, I lead a foraging walk with visiting fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. I pointed out Prickly Pear Cactus — a plant that I’ve heard you can eat, but that we’re not allowed to harvest in Massachusetts, because here it’s considered an endangered species.

Melissa works with Sustainable Cape , a non-profit dedicated to connecting local food to healthy places and people. Since April of 2024, she's been running the organization's Food is Medicine program, where Mass Health actually pays Sustainable Cape to deliver some of its patients' local food:

WELLFLEET — We hear from Jacob Dalby on the fourth cold day. He’s been scouting ponds. The deep ones are still wide open, but the small, shallow ones are beginning […]