Pruning wild blueberries

How to keep Martha's Vineyard fishing community fishing.

This week, a young man in Truro talks about pruning wild blueberries and our relationship with the natural world.

Liz and Keith Martin started with just a few chickens in 2012. Now they've added ducks, alpacas, goats, a vegetable garden, and sugar maple trees.

Tautog or blackfish are native to the Western Atlantic from Nova Scotia down to South Carolina. They can be tricky to catch with a hook and line, because they like to live in rocky areas or old ship wrecks.

Experts estimate food-related deaths and illness cost the economy about one and a half trillion dollars a year. That's like a second defense budget, and then some.

Winter squash is everywhere these days. I find it in my soup and folded into pies, it’s hidden in the guise of muffins and sweetbreads.

This summer, farmer Dave Dewitt of Truro told me he’s growing something I’ve always thought of as a southern crop — okra.

Texture-wise, the fish was phenomenal. There was no “fishiness” at all. It had a delicate sweetness, like what you get at a sushi restaurant. It left a little aftertaste of ocean brine, like you walked into a seafood shop.

What to do when you get too many figs at once.

Looking for fungi with Alex Emmons.