We made the pilot episode for Where The Food Comes From four years ago, telling the stories of how Florida citrus growers have tried to stand their ground against a lethal disease called greening that’s wiped out half of Florida groves in the last 20 years. We focused not on the loss, but on the...
It's in there — those rich blue veins in creamy cheese that make you either love it or loathe it — but how does it get there? The "blue" in blue cheese is mold, of course — not ordinarily something we want to see in our food. But in the cheese world, sometimes mold's your best friend. This bonus...
In the last episode, we took you to Hickory Hill Milk in Edgefield, SC to show you their robotic dairy and tell you about their super-premium creamline milk (you still gotta shake it up!). Now we’ll follow that milk from Hickory Hill to Clemson University where we’ll turn it into amazing blue...
Robots milking cows? It's a thing — very much like the robotic arms that you see in auto manufacturing plants. But these robots are so gentle the ladies never seem to notice. In fact, it's just part of the pampering the herd at Hickory Hill Milk gets 24/7. Which is all part of making it the finest...
The machines do all the work at Hickory Hill Milk in South Carolina and the pampered cows get on-demand service. They make a premium creamline milk you still have to shake. It's so good it's used in world-famous Clemson blue cheese. The Dorn Family are multi-generational dairy people in South...
Citrus is the star of the show at Sunsational Farms, but the veggies are pretty impressive, too. Grown hydroponically on a lot right next to the store and juicery, they're big, bright and beautiful and all a part of the show.
Remember old-school Florida? It's still alive at Sunsational Farms in Umatilla. The farming's all modern, including hydroponic veggies. But the vibe is classic Florida Old School. Two generational Florida citrus families banded together to create a place for family fun that harks back to days gone...
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...
Back in the third ever episode of Where The Food Comes From, we visited a remarkable farming family, the Bradfords of Sumter, SC. Then, they were still growing the same crops their ancestors had for 200 years, from the same seeds, on the same land. Dad Nat, Mom Bette and their five kids formed the...
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...
