Elspeth Hay

Elspeth Hay is a writer, public radio host, and passionate proponent of place-based living. She is the creator of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station, since 2008. Deeply immersed in her own local food system, Elspeth writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food and the environment. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, NPR’s Kitchen Window, Heated with Mark Bittman, The Provincetown Independent, and numerous other publications. Through her conversations with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers, Indigenous knowledge keepers, scientists, researchers, and visionaries, Elspeth aims to rebuild our cultural store of culinary knowledge—and to reconnect us with the people, places, and ideas that feed us. Elspeth lives with her family on Cape Cod, MA.