Papayas, mangoes, coconuts and bananas – makes you think you can’t possibly see them growing together in the U.S. What would really surprise you is to see these things growing together – like right on top of each other – and thriving without any fertilizer or pesticide or even any (gasp!) water.
Episodes
New Old-School Farming
There’s something amazing going on near the Florida Everglades. Farmers are growing crops without irrigation, even in the blistering southwestern part of the Sunshine State. Even more amazing, they’re practicing agriculture the way people have done it for thousands of years – with just a few modern twists.
They Grow Potato Chips? Part 2
In Part 2, we’ll meet some more great NC potato growers and how those taters get sorted and packed. Plus you’ll meet the national reps from the National Potato Council and Potatoes USA who help put ’em on every plate, and the man who’s in the process of taking his North Carolina potato deal to Cuba.
They Grow Potato Chips? Part 1
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? In the summer – including the all-important 4th of July – a tiny part of NE North Carolina is the only game in town for the 3/4s of Americans who live east of the Rockies.
Baseball, News And Chickens?
We keep telling you farming happens everywhere – in the country, of course, but also in cities and suburbs, on rooftops, in parking lots, and apparently the backyard of a network news anchor and her MLB star and broadcast husband.
Bye Bye Bananas
A couple of things you don’t know about bananas: Number 1, you’re opening ’em all wrong. Number 2, in less than 10 years, they’ll all be gone. Unless…
Homecoming
John Shuman has long dreamed that at least one of his sons would come home to join the the family farm business. Now he knows they both are – and one reported for work in January after completing his education at the University of Georgia.
Gouda Nuff
Marieka Penterman is the third-ever female Grandmaster Cheesemaker in Wisconsin. Join us in Wisconsin for a lesson in Dutch cheese mastery!
Fruit Or Vegetable?!
We all know what we think is a fruit and what’s a vegetable. Pretty clear, right? Wrong. Sure you probably know about a tomato — everybody knows that even though it seems like a veggie — it’s actually a fruit, and there are many more in a similar boat.
Beans Ahoy!
Josh Johnson is a regenerative farmer in South Carolina who was determined to recover his family legacy. Now his Old Tyme Bean Co. specializes in long-lost or hard-to-find delights.