Being on the road filming Where The Food Comes From is interesting, fun and always exhausting. Full disclosure, staying in hotels doesn’t impress me and neither does trying to find something good to eat. We usually end up driving through a Chick-fil-A, if there is one around, or stopping at a...
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...
So we were making a couple of episodes on eggs with the Braswell Family in North Carolina, who've been doing that for generations, when Trey Braswell starts petting a chicken and explaining about the earlobes. To which everyone in the room said, "What?!?" Yes, chickens have earlobes. They're right...
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...
Donna Sanders is the script supervisor, field producer and food editor for Where The Food Comes From. This is her Behind-The-Scenes look at our day filming at Braswell Family Farms in Nashville, NC.Talk about making an impression. There are so many facets to this story I don’t know how to begin....
Donna Sanders is the script supervisor, field producer and food editor for Where The Food Comes From. This is her Behind-The-Scenes look at our day filming at Braswell Family Farms in Nashville, NC.Talk about making an impression. There are so many facets to this story I don’t know how to begin....
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...
Donna Sanders is the script supervisor, field producer and food editor for Where The Food Comes From. This is her Behind-The-Scenes look at our day filming with the Virginia Peanut Growers Association.I am so glad I am the assistant producer and not the producer of Where The Food Comes From. You...
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...
