You were probably surprised in Part 1 of this episode to find out that your 4th of July potato chips come from a small area of North Carolina. What you won’t believe, is where the farmers who grow them are going from here. In Part 2 of this one, we’ll meet some more of the great growers who make...
Darren Halstead is a happy potato farmer. That hasn’t always been the case. Earlier in life he was a broke who trade farm commodities on the market. Back then, his kids called him “Grumpy Dad.” No more – Darren returned to his roots and now spends his days growing potatoes in northeastern North Carolina. Hear the story of how he came to make the switch!
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 three days filming with North Carolina potato farmers.Potatoes, potatoes everywhere but not one around to eat – at least from the fields - this time. For...
When you open a bag of potato chips, do you ever stop and think that those were grown on a farm? Or wonder where that farm was? Or who the farmer was who grew ’em? Potatoes grow all over the U.S., but they have specific seasons. You have to use fresh potatoes for chips because of moisture content...
Atlanta power couple Elizabeth Prann, who you see on the air at NewsNation, and Darren O'Day, who pitched 15 years in the Major Leagues before joining the Atlanta Braves broadcast crew last year, have taken up farming in their backyard with their three kids. They'd have never dreamt that years ago...
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 NewsNation's Elizabeth Prann and her husband, former baseball player Darren O’Day on their farm in Marietta, Georgia.When you hear the...
We keep telling you farming happens everywhere – in the country, of course, but also in cities and suburbs, on rooftops, in parking lots... and, amazingly, in the backyards of luxurious homes like the one owned by Atlanta's O'Day family – TV news veteran Elizabeth Prann (NewsNation, Fox, CNN) and...
Braves’ Darren O’Day, NewNation’s Liz Prann Farm Lux Atlanta Backyard With The Kids – Watch Now!The O’Day Home Is A Life Lesson, Chickens And AllATLANTA, GA — From the street, it looks like any other luxurious home in this part of Atlanta, popping through the woods majestically on a curving lane...
We know Raleigh, NC research firm ELO Life is on track to save our bananas. But the company does a lot more than that. There are a lot of naturally occurring things that aren't produced in large enough quantities to be of much benefit to us – flavorings, nutraceuticals, sweeteners. If someone...
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 ELO Life in Raleigh, North Carolina.Sometimes a shoot is so concise and right to the point that it is hard to write a Behind-The-Scenes....
