“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...
Millions of kids spent the first few years of their lives saying “Yuck” to broccoli. Pres. George Bush Sr. didn’t like it either. But most of us grow up to find it quite tasty. And over the last few years, we’ve come to realize just what a nutritional powerhouse this flowery veggie is — along with...
Captain Lee Burgess and his crew spend weeks, sometimes months at sea, fishing until their holds are full to bring back to the docks at Frenchy's Seafood Company in Clearwater, FL, where their catch will soon be on the plates of happy diners at a half-dozen locations. We caught up with Capt....
We spend most of our time in the dirt and on the farm, and that won’t change. But we wondered if our friends in the wild-caught seafood industry might deal with some of the same problems and challenges our farmer friends on land do. The answer? Oh yeah — and maybe then some. If you’ve ever been to...
Year-in and year-out, tiny Cordele, GA is named Watermelon Capital of the World for the sweetness and volume of watermelon that flows from there — there's even a giant state of a watermelon slice to welcome visitors — along with a giant, decommissioned Titan missile that's visible from the...
