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Beans Ahoy!
Everything old is new again. South Carolina's Josh Johnson grows classic favorites like purple hull peas and speckled butter beans at his Old Tyme Bean Co. But it's how he farms as much as what he farms that makes him special.
Johnson is part of a new wave in farming called regenerative agriculture. Rather than rely on a guidebook to say when it's time to spray or prune or anything else, you rely on common sense. A mixture of molasses and simple elements like boron keep the pests away — Johnson hasn't had to use pesticide on a crop in four years now.
The gist of regenerative farming is simple — these folks do things the way their great, great grandaddies did. Everything old is new again.
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Watch full episodes of Where The Food Comes From on demand on our YouTube Channel, or catch us on the RFD-TV Network —check local listings— and on demand on RFD-TV Now and Cowboy Channel+!
Season 4 is here and we’ve got more great stories to share! For starters, we made our way north to Wisconsin for a lesson in corn from a 12-year-old farmer who already knows what he’s doing, and a 95-year-old farmer who’s still learning new tricks every day! Back south we stop in at Clemson University to make blue cheese – and we visit a robotic premium dairy down the road where the milk for that cheese comes from. We tell our first big consumer brand story with the folks from Splenda as we visit their first-in-the-U.S. stevia farm. We discuss the disappearing art of cooking with fire with our friends at the legendary, 100-year-old Fresh Air BBQ in Jackson, GA. We’ll follow up with season one friends in the Florida citrus world and Nat Bradford’s family farm in Sumter, SC. And right down the road is another creative farming operation, the Old Tyme Bean Co., where we’ll unearth some rare treasures. What’s the deal with food safety? Well, we can tell you there is no such thing as the “three-second rule”. And then we’ll wrap up the season on-campus at UGA with what’s sure to become America’s new favorite game show, Fruit Or Vegetable! You would think you already know – we promise you don’t!
