So you've seen all of this stuff we've shown you about bees, and you're still not scared off. You're thinking maybe you'd want to establish a hive or two. How would you ever begin? You can't just go out and hunt down a bee colony and bring it home. You can't go borrow one from another beekeeper...
It's the oldest story we know — the birds and the bees. We don't need the birds to grow our food, but without the bees we'd be in a lot of trouble. About a third of all crops require direct pollination by bees, including 70 of the top 100 primary sources of our food. Take away the bees, you take...
Port of Savannah is the third-busiest in the nation. It's a constant blur of activity — cranes, trains, trucks and some of the most massive ships you've ever seen, all loaded with products from around the world, including a whole lot of the food we eat. They measure traffic in "TEUs" — but what is...
We import a lot of the food we eat. Fortunately for farmers, we export a lot, too. We think of endless lines of trucks streaming in across our southern border bringing in fruits and veggies from Central and South America, and that certainly happens. But for longer trips, larger loads, nothing...
“Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s …” the crew from Where The Food Comes From. Why are we up in the sky? The answer will soon follow. Where The Food Comes From visited the Port of Savannah, GA November 18. How about a few fun facts? You are probably saying, No Donna, not again!...
In February of this year, Aries Haygood was riding high. Life was good for the 34-year-old farmer from Lyons, GA. He had a beautiful family, legions of friends, was known and respected throughout Georgia. He was living his dream, growing Vidalia onions on the family farm. He’d gotten so good at it...
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...
Broccoli is one of the weirdest looking plants you'll ever see growing in a field. Just like its cousins cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and cabbage. The stalks shoot up from a pile of weeds looking like nothing so much as space alien flowers. There's an art to the harvest — and a very large knife...
