Milk. It does a body good. Got milk? How's your milk moustache holding up these days? Those are all familiar images from past advertising campaigns when milk was unquestionably something everybody used pretty much every day. Or so we thought. Turns out a lot of folks have problems digesting milk....
Last week, you first met remarkable 12-year-old farmer Weston Hannan, who planted his first corn patch when he was 6. Remember Weston was not from a farm family. But he had a true passion for farming from the first time he started following neighbors' tractors on his bicycle when he was 4. You...
Weston Hannan has the same problems and questions as other farmers: Where do I get my seed? How do I market my crop? What's my economic position? The main difference between Weston and other farmers is... he's 12-years-old. Most people aren't thinking much beyond scraping together money for soda...
Corn is one of the world's staple crops, so important it sustains about half the world's population. So why did we wait until Episodes 44 and 45 to talk about it? We wanted to do it in the most impactful place possible. And there's nowhere in America they know more about sweet corn — the kind you...
It's amazing how much corn one little squirrel can eat. That's just one of the occupational hazards now facing Weston Hannan, a 12 year old corn farmer from Wisconsin. While most 12-year-olds are busy watching squirrels run up trees, Weston has to worry about how to keep them out of his fields....
Picture this: A young boy, barely more than a toddler, pedaling his bike chasing tractors in a cornfield. Really! Why would a four-year-old be chasing tractors? The answer may surprise you. Fascination, a total fascination with tractors and growing corn. To take this one step further, would you...
There are three fundamental crops that sustain the world. Wheat and rice are everywhere of course but nothing shows up in more different forms on more different tables than corn. So why did we make 44 episodes of this show before we finally talked about it? Simple: We were waiting to meet the...
Barbecue is a time-honored tradition around the globe, a treasured part of virtually every world cuisine. We happen to believe it was perfected at Fresh Air Barbecue in Jackson, GA, nigh on a century ago. There aren't a lot of barbecue schools. You don't go to a university to learn how to do...
We entered the belly of the beast. Embers were burning and the flame was so hot you couldn’t get near it. Never mind the smoke that filled the air and was so thick you could taste it. Were we in the abode of the damned? You would think so, but we were not.Long ago and far away, between 780,000 and...
We discovered barbecue before we even discovered how to tame fire. And once we figured out how to make fire on purpose — and control it — nothing changed the world more. That happened about 750,000 years ago. Astonishingly, even though we had all the ingredients, we didn't perfect the process...
