Hunger in America has a new face. And it might just be your neighbor’s. Rising food costs, a horrible pandemic, uncertain economic times, these have all led to an unprecedented demand for access to affordable — preferably free — nutritious food. And our nation’s farmers are responding to that...
Chip Carter takes a time machine back to 1870 to spend a typical day working on the farm. And he's still tired. No wonder — in Part 2 alone, he works a blacksmith's forge, finishes the turpentine process that started in Part 1, takes a ride with some train engineers and grinds corn to make grits...
You think farming's hard now? You should have been there in 1870. Chip Carter found a time machine for a trip to the Georgia Museum of Agricultural on the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. It's a 400-acre living history exhibit where they still plow with mules, shear sheep...
You don't often get a chance to talk with someone who has a building named after them, in that very same building. Because most people buildings are named after aren't still there to talk. Unlike the star of Season 2, Episode 2 of "Where The Food Comes From" — "Farming's New Research Jewel". The...
Ever wondered how you have fresh veggies all year round even though it's not spring and summer all year round? It's all part of a plan. Part of it's Mother Nature's, part of it is the art of farming. We follow the sun from January in the Everglades with the vegetable experts at the L&M...
It doesn't much matter where the food comes from if you can't get it from there to where it needs to be. Enter transportation and logistics. We'll visit the Atlanta State Farmers Market — this is not the typical Saturday morning market you go to with your family — and see how the food keeps moving...
As a lethal disease called Citrus Greening continues to chew up Florida groves (half of the state's citrus land has disappeared in the last 15 years) growers are looking for alternatives. Some are growing citrus undercover in giant screened enclosures. Some are studying genetics for an answer. And...
Over the last 20 years, half of all Florida citrus groveland has disappeared. Some of that's due to growing cities that are encroaching on agricultural land. But more of it is due to a lethal disease called Citrus Greening. Once a tree is infected, the rest of the grove is not far behind. The...
In Episode 6, we introduced you to a few of the people who've helped make North Carolina the dominant force in U.S. sweetpotato production. Now we're going to take you to some amazing farms. North Carolina grows more than two-thirds of the annual U.S. sweetpotato crop. They're pretty darned good...
Tobacco built North Carolina agriculture and sustained it for generations. But it's sweetpotatoes riding to the rescue. Always a favorite with country folks, now we know they're nutritional powerhouses that also simply taste wonderful. Think you know how to spell sweetpotato? Probably not — check...
