Love for the Land
America’s Heartland celebrates the hardworking men and women who provide us with food and fabric. They are people who love the earth and coax its bounty from the soil and water. As we begin this journey, the first and biggest surprise may be just how fascinating and colorful these people are and how many great stories they have to tell.

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Homesteading
Imagine that you can’t feed your family or maybe you risk persecution for your political or religious beliefs. But suddenly you hear the call: come along to make a new life in a wide-open land. In a few years, you’ll own that land, for yourself and your descendents, free and forever.This fabulous offer turned out to be a cornerstone in the very foundation of America’s heartland.

The Old Farmer's Almanac
We live in an era of information overload. So many of us face a constant and often confusing barrage of facts, figures, and opinions. It’s just a lot of noise. But a lot of smart folks are returning to the basics, relying on a quietly humorous publication that’s been providing useful information to farmers and the rest of us for more than two centuries.

Georgia Carrots
Americans love carrots and U.S.growers produce 1.5 billion pounds per year, according to a study from Iowa State University. And way down south, the competition is heating up between traditional carrot-growing states and the newcomer on the block.

                       

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