Did you know bananas are about to disappear? That tomatoes are a berry? That strawberry seeds aren’t where you think they are? And oh, by the way, Winnie the Pooh had it all wrong: Bears don’t like honey at all (bee larva’s another story…).
Welcome to Where The Food Comes From! The show premiered on the RFD-TV Network in January 2022 and has since rolled up 65, 22-minute episodes from across the agricultural spectrum that are a perfect addition to your classroom. There are also 350 shorts filmed in the same locations on the same topics. They’re all collected together in one handy platform you can access from our home page for ag educators.
WTFCF travels the country visiting farms and following the food chain to introduce you to the people who feed us — then shows you how they do it, and tells you why they do it. Producer and Host Chip Carter is usually in a field somewhere with his nose in the dirt. But you’ll also find him at research labs, urban farms, packinghouses, ports and transportation hubs, henhouses, ranches, restaurants — anywhere there’s a story that touches our food chain.
“I tell people all the time: Agriculture happens everywhere, and we can’t separate ourselves from it,” Carter says. “Every second of every minute of every life is forever connected to the farm.”
WTFCF features shows about everything under the sun — fruit and veggies, meat, dairy, cheese, eggs, seafood, bees, research, regulations, food safety, transportation and logistics. The goal is to connect the dots and make it easier for people to look beyond just the farm and see the big picture of agriculture. The show itself is best-suited to Grades 6 and up; the shorts are suitable for a wide range of audiences and more are released every week.
Up next for the WTFCF team? An out-of-this-world farming adventure — literally. In partnership with NASA, Carter and crew are currently filming a series of episodes about how we’re going to grow food in space aboard the International Space Station and, soon, on the Lunar Colony!
