Coming July 2025

The day Elspeth Hay learned we can eat acorns, stories she’d believed her whole life began to unravel. We’re thinking about agriculture all wrong, she realized. Feed Us with Trees is her hopeful manifesto about a new and ancient food system centered on our keystone perennial nut trees: oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts.

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Photo Credit: Joe Navas

ELSPETH HAY

Author, creator of the Local Food Report, and proponent of place-based living.

Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, Elspeth’s work focuses on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us.

A farmer holds a handful of freshly harvested local carrots.

The Local Food Report

The Local Food Report airs on Local NPR for the Cape, Coast & Islands: 90.1, 91.1, 94.3. Thursday at 8:35 AM and 5:45 PM and Saturday at 9:35 AM.