Barnstable County has one of the highest child food insecurity rates in Massachusetts. Today, Tammy Leone is Executive Director of Cape Kid Meals and says it’s grown quite a bit since Pastor Johnson first reached out to the elementary schools in his community of Dennis.

Barnstable County has one of the highest child food insecurity rates in Massachusetts. Today, Tammy Leone is Executive Director of Cape Kid Meals and says it’s grown quite a bit since Pastor Johnson first reached out to the elementary schools in his community of Dennis.

That’s the goal of the recently formed South Coast Food Policy Council — to get every part of the regional food system functioning and communicating. In the immediate future, Liz says, the most likely change is that Massachusetts residents will see big cuts to services like the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, which helps feed more than 12 percent of Mass residents or almost a million people. And to address this the council is dusting off pandemic-era approaches to making food assistance more local.

It’s creamy as in instead of being made with water and sugar, it’s made with sugar and heavy cream. When he first saw this new-to-him version of the famous Italian after-dinner drink, Lou wasn’t sure what to make of it, put it in the freezer, and for months, completely forgot about it.

It’s creamy as in instead of being made with water and sugar, it’s made with sugar and heavy cream. When he first saw this new-to-him version of the famous Italian after-dinner drink, Lou wasn’t sure what to make of it, put it in the freezer, and for months, completely forgot about it.

Today the oysters in Barnstable Harbor are farmed by aquaculture growers. Like all farmers, oyster growers have to buy seed each season. And Greta Nelson says that when their oyster seeds arrive from the hatchery, they’re tiny, so small that they can’t just be put out on the flats — they grow them in bags made of fine mesh.

The way that we generally prune blueberries is they're shrubs that often produce new shoots out of the ground. And it's really important to for almost all shrubs that produce shoots out of the ground to maintain youthfulness in the shrub.

Shadbush berries are delicious—kind of like a cross between a beach plum and a blueberry, with small nutty seeds. Most of the time we just eat shadberries—they're so good, and also they don't keep that well—but in the rain this weekend I decided to experiment.

I reached out to friends all over the Cape about what they're foraging. Together, we compiled a list of what's out there this time of year. The idea is to help you keep yourself healthy and fed during these difficult times. The links are either to old blog posts on these wild edibles, or other websites that have good identification guides.

The great thing about sourdough is that all you need is flour, water, and salt. That's it!

Most people have no idea migratory beekeepers even exist—they do their work at night, moving bees while they're all back in the hive and unloading into orchards and fields in the dark—let alone how important they are to our huge, industrial food system.