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...
At a time before anyone knew about the negative impact of tobacco, that one crop built not just North Carolina agriculture but the entire state. The crop played a pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas and the building of America. And North Carolina was the center of it all. Now we know...
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...
North Carolina is one of our favorite places to be, and we’re there often, most recently for another leg of filming that included a visit to the brand new and gleaming Steve Troxler Agricultural Science Center of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDACS) in...
Unlike a conventional farm, the folks at Red Sun Farms in Dublin, VA don't get to knock off when it starts raining. Their huge greenhouse keeps the plants — and workers — dry. And even though rainfall is certainly beneficial for crops, it can have some drawbacks, especially for tomatoes — another...
Forty foot tomato vines hanging from the ceiling? It's not science fiction -- it's the science of agriculture. All around the world, farming is moving indoors, into space age greenhouses that look like an artists rendering of a colony on Mars or the like. But it's the reality of today! We visited...
Picture this: A chilly and rainy day in Dublin, VA. Not exactly a picturesque time to visit a farm. Hello Red Sun Farms! What makes this farm so special? It’s one of the largest greenhouse growers in North America. Red Sun Farms is based in Canada, and has greenhouse farms there, in Mexico, and in...
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...
