The Local Food Report

This week on the Local Food Report, a slaughterhouse in Westport.

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.