North Carolina is one of our favorite places to be, and we’re there often, most recently for another leg of filming that included a visit to the brand new and gleaming Steve Troxler Agricultural Science Center of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS) in...
Picture this: A chilly and rainy day in Dublin, VA. Not exactly a picturesque time to visit a farm. Hello Red Sun Farms! What makes this farm so special? It’s one of the largest greenhouse growers in North America. Red Sun Farms is based in Canada, and has greenhouse farms there, in Mexico, and in...
Over the last 20 years, half of all Florida citrus groveland has disappeared. Some of that’s due to growing cities that are encroaching on agricultural land. But more of it is due to a lethal disease called Citrus Greening; the subject of Season 1, Episode 8 of Where The Food Comes From. Once a...
Over the last 20 years, half of all Florida citrus groveland has disappeared. Some of that’s due to growing cities that are encroaching on agricultural land. But more of it is due to a lethal disease called Citrus Greening; the subject of Season 1, Episode 8 of Where The Food Comes From. Once a...
The “Dog Days” of summer is such an interesting phrase. But what exactly does it mean? It refers to the hottest and most humid days of the summer. The Farmer’s Almanac tells us it begins July 3rd and ends August 11th. The term conjures up images of sitting on a front porch sipping lemonade, sweet...
The “Dog Days” of summer is such an interesting phrase. But what exactly does it mean? It refers to the hottest and most humid days of the summer. The Farmer’s Almanac tells us it begins July 3rd and ends August 11th. The term conjures up images of sitting on a front porch sipping lemonade, sweet...
We visited St. Petersburg’s Brick Street Farms in the dead of summer — the Florida heat and humidity were stifling. Good thing Brick Street farms indoors! Brick Street is part of the urban farming revolution that’s going on across this nation. People are growing food any and everywhere they can —...
Picture this: Long ago and far away (actually 1997, Tampa, FL) a group of boys ran onto a soccer field. Then life happened and those boys grew into men. What does this have to do with mushrooms? Absolutely nothing. Or does it? You met Joe Iovino in Season 1, Episode 4 of Where The Food Comes From...
Bradford Watermelon Company, out in the countryside near Sumter, SC is a true family farm established in 1840 with a rich history – but Bradfords have been farming this land for 200 years! While the farm grows many crops, Watermelon is King! In the 1850s Nathaniel Bradford, known in those parts as...
