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...
American family farmers are dreamers. They’re do-ers, too, of course. Nobody works harder than farmers. But in the world of modern agriculture, it’s getting harder and harder for Mom and Pop farms — the backbone America was built on — to get ahead. Enter Heartland Food Products Group, makers of...
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....
