We tell you all the time, farming's not just happening in the country. Now we'll take you to Virginia State University, one of the nation's oldest HBCUs, for a look at a program that's bringing the farm to urban areas everywhere. Alumni Tyrone Cherry is the executive director of Petersberg is...
Founded in 1882, Virginia State University was one of the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the first to offer a four-year degree. It trained the first generation of Black Americans born free, providing opportunities that their parents couldn’t have imagined. In this special...
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? We can’t answer that question… but we can take you to one of the country’s biggest and best egg producers, North Carolina’s Braswell Family Farms, which produces some 2 million eggs a day for Eggland’s Best, Land O’ Lakes, and their own proprietary label...
There are very few crops anywhere in the world that can pinpoint their origin. But we know the exact spot where Virginia peanuts were first planted, and we’ll take you there. Virginia peanuts are the kind you think of when you’re eating those plump, crunchy beauties out of a can or in shells at...
New Old-School Farming In Punta Gorda: Tropical Fruit With No Water?PUNTA GORDA, FL — Across the road from Matthew Reece’s Peace River Organics farm sits an ancient Florida forest; lush vegetation, green even in dry 95-degree weather, half-jungle, hundreds-of-years-old and part of an ecosystem...
There’s something amazing going on near the Florida Everglades. Farmers are growing crops without irrigation, even in the blistering southwestern part of the Sunshine State. Even more amazing, they’re practicing agriculture the way people have done it for thousands of years – with just a few...
You were probably surprised in Part 1 of this episode to find out that your 4th of July potato chips come from a small area of North Carolina. What you won’t believe, is where the farmers who grow them are going from here. In Part 2 of this one, we’ll meet some more of the great growers who make...
When you open a bag of potato chips, do you ever stop and think that those were grown on a farm? Or wonder where that farm was? Or who the farmer was who grew ’em? Potatoes grow all over the U.S., but they have specific seasons. You have to use fresh potatoes for chips because of moisture content...
Braves’ Darren O’Day, NewNation’s Liz Prann Farm Lux Atlanta Backyard With The Kids – Watch Now!The O’Day Home Is A Life Lesson, Chickens And AllATLANTA, GA — From the street, it looks like any other luxurious home in this part of Atlanta, popping through the woods majestically on a curving lane...
Bye Bye Bananas – In 10 Years, They’ll Be Extinct. Unless… See The Story Now On YouTube Or TVWorldwide Fungal Infection Has Been Raging For 20 YearsRALEIGH, NC — The bananas get your attention. You don’t expect, in one of the South’s crown jewel cities, a center of research, education and...
