Watermelon is grown around the world and in 44 U.S. states. It’s one of the most popular global fruits. But 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...
Most kids today are obsessed with the digital world — it's all about the screens they sit in front of, hold in their hands, or carry in their pockets. It seems like an evolutionary time — maybe they'll be the next generation of rocket scientists. But who's going to work on the farm and keep us...
We hear a lot about the decline of the true family farm these days — it’s become a world of specialization and big agriculture. Even though most of those companies are still family owned, they’re not exactly the picture of a family farm we have in our minds. Meet the Gibbs Family. They live...
Our goal in this episode was to show some of the support infrastructure it takes to keep farmers going. But we wanted to make sure we had some farmers there, too, like Rob Glover. Glover is a third-generation farmer who grows a variety of fruits and veggies, selling through normal channels and his...
We think of Stuckey's as a candy company, or a beloved icon from America's past. Actually, it's a farming company, and always has been — pecans, to be particular. In 1937, W.S. Stuckey started selling pecans in Southeast Georgia. Shortly thereafter, he opened a roadside stand. His wife Ethel soon...
There was a time you couldn't get on the wide open roads of America and not see a Stuckey's store. Loaded with treats beyond imagination that you just couldn't get anywhere else, Stuckey's quickly became an American icon after it launched in 1937. At the peak of the empire there were almost 400...
There's an amazing restaurant at the North Carolina State Farmers Market restaurant — folks around there just call it Gypsy's place. And they come for miles around for the fresh, North Carolina-grown food Gypsy Gilliam sources straight off the Market. But it's the biscuits that keep 'em coming...
Fading D Farms is up in the hills of Salisbury, NC, where typically no kind of buffalo roams. But the farm produces milk, meat, traditional Italian buffala mozzarella cheese and — most amazingly — gelato. Host Chip Carter started his day milking the first water buffalo he ever met at 7:30 a.m. By...
Water buffalo are friendly and fun creatures and were also apparently in a mood to horse around with host Chip Carter, who met these amazing creatures for the very first time the morning we filmed this episode. This scene came about midday, while Chip was trying to record the opening to the show....
Christmas tree farming sounds like an easy job — plant a tree, come back and cut it a few years later, get paid. Not so fast. They don't just have that shape and lushness by accident — each tree gets constant attention. By the time it reaches your home, it has been cared for and shaped well over...
