The Society of St. Andrew is a gleaning organization. Gleaners go through commercial fields post-harvest to recover perfectly good food that's been left behind — often up to 40% of a crop! We talked with some SOSA volunteers and their hosts for the day, Smith's Farm, about why they get involved....
In part 2 of our very special episodes focusing on farmers and Feeding America, we'll meet some volunteers from the Society of St. Andrew, a remarkable Feeding America partner that actually does the hard work of going out and salvaging unharvested crops from fields — they call it gleaning, just...
In Season 2, we’ve visited visited so many wonderful, interesting, and fun places with Where The Food Comes From. You might remember those amazing tomatoes at Red Sun Farms – one of the largest greenhouse growers in North America. Tomatoes hanging from the ceiling in the most sanitary conditions...
Feeding America and Society of St. Andrew workers dedicate their lives to feeding others — a lot of that food comes from traditional sources, but it's just not right for the standard supply chain. Maybe it's too big, too small (find out why that matters in this segment) or just not pretty. Adam...
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...
The Time MachineTIFTON, GA — Is it the year 1890? I don’t think so, but you’d never know it here at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village on the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC). WTFCF visited April 20 for the annual Folklife Festival. We’ve all visited...
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...
Really, more like does some hammering. Old school. Like real old school. In 1850, you couldn't just pull into Tires 'R' Us and get a new shoe for your mule. Or a new harness, or wagon axle, or anything else made of metal. You wanted it, somebody had to make it. And here's how that happened.
The Time MachineTIFTON, GA — Is it the year 1890? I don’t think so, but you’d never know it here at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village on the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC). WTFCF visited April 20 for the annual Folklife Festival. We’ve all visited...
Pam and Pat are about as chill a pair of mules as you will ever meet. Our host Chip Carter hitched up behind a mule team to find out what it was like to get a field ready to plant back before Mr. Deere figured out a better way.
