The big news for this episode is the homecoming of oldest son Luke Shuman to join his father, Shuman Farms CEO and Founder John Shuman, in the family business. But Luke explains that Shuman Farms is about way more than one family. That family doesn't share blood bonds – and it's always expanding.
There’s a long-time-and-growing concern in the world of agriculture: With a profession so demanding and often downright difficult, who’s going to come home and take over the farm when this generation is done? Quite often, sons and daughters don’t want to continue their fathers’ and grandfathers’...
Marieke Gouda only makes one kind of cheese, Holland's biggest star Gouda! But that doesn't mean they don't make a wide variety of flavors. Cranberry, honey clover, bacon and even stinging nettle (there's a reason!). There's a wonderful pantry at the factory where all those spices and flavorings...
You think you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. But you probably don't. We met with Dr. Tim Coolong of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to find out what's really what. You can see the full results in our gameshow in the whole episode....
Josh Johnson has tried a little bit of everything at his Old Tyme Bean Co. and farming operation in South Carolina. He drew the line at edamame — hard to spell, hard to grow. But like basketball great Michael Jordan says, failure breeds champions.
Sometimes food safety can be less about what's in or out of what you're eating and more about what you're used to eating. As Dr. Francisco Diez-Gonzalez from the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety explains, different organisms make different people sick. And a lot of that has to do with...
Cows are cute and they're great friends to us — but they're not the best-smelling animals in the world. You will usually know you're approaching a dairy farm long before you actually get there. Not at M&B Dairies in Lecanto, FL, which bottles its milk as M&B Products in Temple Terrace, FL,...
There was a survey a few years ago that showed about 25% of schoolkids think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Clearly doesn't work that way. So how do we get delightful chocolate (and yummy strawberry!) milk? Our friends and M&B Products in Temple Terrace, FL gives us the scoop.
Weston Hannan has the same problems and questions as other farmers: Where do I get my seed? How do I market my crop? What's my economic position? The main difference between Weston and other farmers is... he's 12-years-old. Most people aren't thinking much beyond scraping together money for soda...
It's amazing how much corn one little squirrel can eat. That's just one of the occupational hazards now facing Weston Hannan, a 12 year old corn farmer from Wisconsin. While most 12-year-olds are busy watching squirrels run up trees, Weston has to worry about how to keep them out of his fields....
