Peaches peaches peaches, far as the eye can see… except for the stately pecan trees planted alongside them in the fields at Lane Southern Orchards, a fixture just off I-75 in Ft. Valley, GA for over 100 years. But Lane doesn’t just grow great fruit and nuts — they were also originators in the...
The Society of St. Andrew is a gleaning organization. Gleaners go through commercial fields post-harvest to recover perfectly good food that's been left behind — often up to 40% of a crop! We talked with some SOSA volunteers and their hosts for the day, Smith's Farm, about why they get involved....
Feeding America and Society of St. Andrew workers dedicate their lives to feeding others — a lot of that food comes from traditional sources, but it's just not right for the standard supply chain. Maybe it's too big, too small (find out why that matters in this segment) or just not pretty. Adam...
Really, more like does some hammering. Old school. Like real old school. In 1850, you couldn't just pull into Tires 'R' Us and get a new shoe for your mule. Or a new harness, or wagon axle, or anything else made of metal. You wanted it, somebody had to make it. And here's how that happened.
Pam and Pat are about as chill a pair of mules as you will ever meet. Our host Chip Carter hitched up behind a mule team to find out what it was like to get a field ready to plant back before Mr. Deere figured out a better way.
At a time before anyone knew about the negative impact of tobacco, that one crop built not just North Carolina agriculture but the entire state. The crop played a pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas and the building of America. And North Carolina was the center of it all. Now we know...
Unlike a conventional farm, the folks at Red Sun Farms in Dublin, VA don't get to knock off when it starts raining. Their huge greenhouse keeps the plants — and workers — dry. And even though rainfall is certainly beneficial for crops, it can have some drawbacks, especially for tomatoes — another...
The Vidalia onion has been around for some 90 years — but no one outside of the area ever heard of it until the mid-1980s when it became available nationally. That doesn't mean there weren't farmers and farm families in the Vidalia region who'd been plowing the land there for generations. It just...
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...
Fifty years ago, no one had even heard of a Vidalia onion: it’s the result of maybe the happiest accident in food and farming history. Seems back in the 1930s, a farmer in Vidalia, GA had promised an onion crop to the local Piggly Wiggly. A late freeze took out the crop. No more onion seedlings...
