Elspeth Hay

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Beekeeper on Martha's Vineyard rears his own Queens

By: Elspeth Hay

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

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Herring fishery reopens in Harwich after two decades

By: Elspeth Hay

The town of Harwich has opened a recreational herring fishery for the first time in twenty years.

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Cooking with oily fish

By: Elspeth Hay

This week on the Local Food Report, we talk about cooking with oily fish. It's tricky. But when you get it right, it's so good.

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Holding onto rain for food security

By: Elspeth Hay

On Cape Cod, we're seeing the effects of climate change in lots of ways. But there's one change that caught the attention of Orleans agro-ecologist Peter Jensen.

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Cooking with garlic scapes

By: Elspeth Hay

This week on the Local Food Report, garlic scapes are in season at the Truro Farmers Market, and there are so many good ways to cook them.

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Huckleberries are tasty and often overlooked

By: Elspeth Hay

You've probably heard of a huckleberry. But have you ever eaten one? The small, black relatives of the blueberry grow all over the Cape and Islands, and Neil Gadway has been picking them his whole life.

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Remembering Wellfleet's historic herring run

By: Elspeth Hay

of Beth Chapman is fascinated by the history of the Herring River. She serves on the board of the Friends of the Herring River and spent 20

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A fizzy fermented drink made from leftover bread

By: Elspeth Hay

Helen loved it. 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 almost forty years.

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Eating wild black cherries, pits and all

By: Elspeth Hay

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 cherries have been both abundant and incredibly important here ecologically.

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Tips for beginning mushroom hunters from a Wellfleet enthusiast

By: Elspeth Hay

This story originally aired on November 2, 2023. I'm walking the woods on a beautiful fall day looking for fungi with Alex Emmons.