The big news for this episode is the homecoming of oldest son Luke Shuman to join his father, Shuman Farms CEO and Founder John Shuman, in the family business. But Luke explains that Shuman Farms is about way more than one family. That family doesn't share blood bonds – and it's always expanding.
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 Shuman Farms in Reidsville, Georgia.Once upon a time – actually in the mid-1980s - in a faraway land known as Reidsville, GA a gentleman...
There’s a long-time-and-growing concern in the world of agriculture: With a profession so demanding and often downright difficult, who’s going to come home and take over the farm when this generation is done? Quite often, sons and daughters don’t want to continue their fathers’ and grandfathers’...
Who’ll Take Over The Farm? A Vidalia Homecoming Story – Watch on YouTube or On TVFamily Farming Continues To Find Ways To FlourishREIDSVILLE, GA – It’s April, 2010. Two young brothers frolic in a Vidalia onion field, “helping” their father and his crew begin that year’s harvest of the world’s most...
Marieke Gouda only makes one kind of cheese, Holland's biggest star Gouda! But that doesn't mean they don't make a wide variety of flavors. Cranberry, honey clover, bacon and even stinging nettle (there's a reason!). There's a wonderful pantry at the factory where all those spices and flavorings...
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 Marieke Gouda in Thorpe, Wisconsin.I have mentioned before that sometimes adjectives to describe a shoot are hard for me to come by and,...
Who doesn’t love cheese? But what kind of cheese is your favorite? Now that’s a hard call. So we headed for Wisconsin to see how the masters do it. We went with our heads full of visions of cheddar and colby – and came away amazed instead by the fact that the world’s best cheese might be something...
Meet The Gibbs Kids: A Real Georgia Family Farm Story Comes To TVA ‘True American Love Story’ Led To A Small EmpireABBEVILLE, GA? — The Gibbs family farm is a bit of a surprise in today’s modern agricultural landscape. For starters, it looks like what you’d think a family farm would look like – a...
Tampa Firefighter’s Garage Farm Biz Is Mushrooming; Story Comes To National TVHome-Based Rags-to-Riches Tale Featured On RFD-TVLUTZ, FL — Tampa Bay firefighter Joe Iovino doesn’t like mushrooms. Well, he didn’t, once upon a time. That’s before he turned a home garage hobby into a booming farm...
The Watermelon Capital of The World, Cordele, GA, Comes To TV The Taste of Summer is Just Off I-75 CORDELE, GA — It’s a sweltering, humid Georgia summer morning, not exactly the kind that makes you want to kick off your shoes and skip whistling through a watermelon patch… but exactly the kind of...
