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We’re most often out in a field with our noses in the dirt. But you’ll also find us in lab coats and restaurants and packinghouses, Congressional and State offices, college and industry research facilities – anywhere there’s a story to be told about food and farming.
Where The Food Comes From taps into the passion and commitment of the people who feed us. There are easier ways to make a living, as anyone who’s ever seen the show knows. But from the farms to the research laboratories to the offices where people make the rules that regulate it all, the people involved in agriculture care deeply about what they’re doing. They make up just 1.5% of the population – but they proudly bear the weight of keeping the rest of us fed.
That’s the power of Where The Food Comes From – peeling back the labels and letting the world meet some of the people who put food on their plates.
Catch full episodes of Where The Food Comes From on our YouTube Channel, every Friday at 10:00 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 a.m. EST on the RFD-TV Network and on demand on RFD-TV Now and Cowboy Channel+!
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Tropical Fruit Salad
Papayas, mangoes, coconuts and bananas – walking through a jungle and seeing things like that makes you think you can't possibly still be in the U.S. But you most assuredly are, in Southwest Florida, near Fort Myers, in fact. What would really surprise you is to see these things growing together – like right on top of each other – and thriving without any fertilizer or pesticide or even any (gasp!) water.
Once upon a time, Matthew Reece was a civil engineer by trade. That life proved unsatisfying. A change in the way he ate changed all the rest of it, too. Now Reece is practicing organic, regenerative agroforestry, operating a nursery and harvesting fruit for a variety of markets.
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Catch Where The Food Comes From every Friday at 10:00 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 a.m. EST on the RFD-TV Network and on demand at RFD-TV Now and Cowboy Channel+!
SEASON 2
In Season 1, you met some of the people of farming and saw what they do up close and personal. There’s plenty more of that in Season 2 (including a look at how we’re likely to grow food on Mars, with 50-foot tomato vines hanging from the ceiling) but we also expand our reach to focus more on the heart of farming, the ways the amazing people who feed us give back to their own communities. That might mean working with organizations like Feeding America and gleaners like the Society of St. Andrew (who actually harvest leftover food from commercial fields) or efforts they spearhead themselves, from volunteering for the local fire department to starting support groups to actually stocking a fleet of buses to deliver fresh produce on a pay-what-you-can model to food deserts. We also take a look back at our roots, with a special two-part episode “Where The Food CAME From” where our host spends a day working as a farmer in 1870. You get an ag trade show, where people who grow food by the ton meet up with people who buy it by the ton.
