Mushrooms are seemingly magical. They pop up from nowhere and are gone almost as soon as they appear sometimes. But mushrooms just keep giving. They start from agricultural byproducts, produce until they're spent, then the source material becomes compost for farming — and can still keep producing...
When Chip Carter caught up with firefighter and mushroom farmer Joe Iovino of Cactus Hat Mushrooms to film Episode 4 of Where The Food Comes From, he was also catching up with an old connection. From about age 12 on, Iovino was a member of "Coach" Carter's Tampa Bay youth soccer team. Here's a...
Four years ago, Tampa Bay firefighter Joe Iovino started growing gourmet mushrooms in his garage as a hobby. Today, he's pumping out a crop worth about $300,000 a year! Now Joe and family have just bought land for a new homestead and farm — but he says he'll never quit driving the firetruck.
One of the real delights of filming the Farming Like It's 1699 episode with Nat Bradford and Family in South Carolina was meeting 9-year-old Natalie. She talked with us about her room, her life, and what it's like being a farm kid in 2022 who's working the same way her great, great, great...
