You probably don't get to see the flowers of farming the way we do. You're usually looking at the finished fruit or veggie, not the lovely blossoms that made it happen. We took a detour with Nat Bradford to talk about some of those flowers and the role they play in food and farming. We start with...
Splenda's new stevia farm in central Florida is the first of its kind in the U.S. Thousands of plants produce millions of leaves that are then turned into plant-based stevia sweetener products. But how do they get the sweet stuff out? Science! Wait... come back! It's not scary science, it's...
Cows are generally pretty tranquil animals, and the pampered bovines at Baxley, GA's Circle F Farms are even moreso. The Folsom family has been ranching for generations — now they've put that experience in play with an amazing retail store and an emphasis on charcuterie. But have you ever had a...
So you've seen all of this stuff we've shown you about bees, and you're still not scared off. You're thinking maybe you'd want to establish a hive or two. How would you ever begin? You can't just go out and hunt down a bee colony and bring it home. You can't go borrow one from another beekeeper...
Port of Savannah is the third-busiest in the nation. It's a constant blur of activity — cranes, trains, trucks and some of the most massive ships you've ever seen, all loaded with products from around the world, including a whole lot of the food we eat. They measure traffic in "TEUs" — but what is...
Folks who know Chip know he was playing music before he ever wrote a word or stepped in front of a camera. He also composed and performs the theme song to “Where The Food Comes From”(which he got to record using the same Fender guitar you hear on Roy Orbison’s, “O, Pretty Woman”!) He wrote this...
Broccoli is one of the weirdest looking plants you'll ever see growing in a field. Just like its cousins cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage. The stalks shoot up from a pile of weeds looking like nothing so much as space alien flowers. There's an art to the harvest — and a very large knife...
Captain Lee Burgess and his crew spend weeks, sometimes months at sea, fishing until their holds are full to bring back to the docks at Frenchy's Seafood Company in Clearwater, FL, where their catch will soon be on the plates of happy diners at a half-dozen locations. We caught up with Capt....
Year-in and year-out, tiny Cordele, GA is named Watermelon Capitol of the World for the sweetness and volume of watermelon that flows from there — there's even a giant state of a watermelon slice to welcome visitors — along with a giant, decommissioned Titan missile that's visible from the...
Travelers on Interstate 75 running through central Georgia see a site that often makes them pull over and stop — a giant Titan missile stretching up to the sky that’s visible from the roadway off an exit for the town of Cordele. When visitors pull over for gas and a bite to eat, that’s when they...
