Season 11

S11 Ep20 | 5m 3s

Victoria Island Farms in the heart of California’s Central Valley is one of the largest asparagus producers in the nation.

S11 Ep20 | 4m 45s

There are definite benefits to living in the country: rural residents often enjoy open spaces and clean air.

S11 Ep20 | 4m 14s

Many of the heartland’s distinct farm communities were originally tied together by a common ethnic background or religion.

S11 Ep20 | 3m 48s

Travel across many parts of the country and you'll see the famous red and white Bob Evans Family Restaurants.

S11 Ep19 | 5m 10s

Gerardo Espinosa didn’t start out to be a winemaker. However, he followed in the footsteps of his farmer father who immigrated to California in the 1940’s.

S11 Ep19 | 6m 3s

Chef Sharon Profis is back in the kitchen creating dishes that turn rice from a simple grain into an important recipe option for your dinner table.

S11 Ep19 | 4m 6s

American Bison…commonly called buffalo…once roamed by the millions from the Ohio Valley to the Rocky Mountains.

S11 Ep19 | 3m 43s

Like a great pickle? If you’re a pickle connoisseur, you’ve probably tasted Gedney Pickles.

S11 Ep17 | 4m 11s

Operated by the Stone family, the ranch is a model of agriculture that benefits the environment.

S11 Ep17 | 5m 27s

Sharon shows you how spinach can also be a unique ingredient in a special kind of falafel.

S11 Ep17 | 3m 39s

For one farm family in Georgia getting fresh watermelons from field to market.

S11 Ep17 | 5m 59s

Ever wonder about the wool that started the entire process of putting clothes on your back?

S11 Ep16 | 3m 55s

The Dairy Council of California wants youngsters to know more about the food they eat and where it comes from.

S11 Ep16 | 5m 3s

Honeybee aficionados say that the honey that comes from Florida’s Tupelo Trees is some of the sweetest on earth.

S11 Ep16 | 3m 29s

From February to early April little towns throughout Massachusetts take part in an old New England tradition.

S11 Ep16 | 6m 9s

It’s a dairy with milk and much more! Portland, Oregon’s Alpenrose Dairy has a baseball field, quarter midget races, even a velodrome bicycle track.

S11 Ep15 | 4m 10s

Visitors from all across northern California make their way to the farm to buy irises in bloom and to order iris plants that they will later plant in their own yards.

S11 Ep15 | 6m 28s

Sharon Profis delivers a recipe using coconut milk that may have you considering adding this flavorful ingredient to some of your favorite dishes.

S11 Ep15 | 4m 21s

The beans generate more than four billion dollars a year in farm income and they’ve been an important crop for generations.

S11 Ep15 | 4m 5s

The Hansons raise a variety of crops and found that they had to diversify to keep the farm profitable.

S11 Ep14 | 3m 29s

Brian Brown farms an area on southern California on the edge of Death Valley. But Brian has a thirst for farming.

S11 Ep14 | 5m 7s

Sprawling across three counties in central Florida with over 6,000 heads of cattle on 30 thousand acres is the Lightsey Cattle Company.

S11 Ep14 | 4m 8s

For some farmers in Oregon, that means an "old school" approach to working the land.

S11 Ep14 | 5m

Seven Brides Brewing has a unique name that goes along with a unique brewing story.

S11 Ep13 | 3m 59s

It’s an antique tractor celebration featuring the “Best Tractor Company” formed by C.L. Best in the 1800s.

S11 Ep13 | 6m 17s

Sharon Profis is in the kitchen with a way to add a little zing to your zucchini.

S11 Ep13 | 3m 52s

Michael Martin Murphey is a Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter who created and sings the “America’s Heartland” theme song.

S11 Ep13 | 5m 48s

Rodney Dillard has focused his life on music from the heartland.

S11 Ep12 | 4m 20s

Wild horses played a huge role in the development of farms and ranches on the American plains and the American West.

S11 Ep12 | 4m 55s

Many California winemakers are taking substantial steps to protect the environment.

S11 Ep12 | 5m 19s

Far-flung tribes of Plains Indians and wagon trains carrying settlers gazed out across an endless sea of tall prairie grass.

S11 Ep12 | 4m 33s

For modern-day American farmers, harvesting the food, fuel and fiber we all use demands much more than tractors and trucks.

S11 Ep11 | 3m 56s

All too often, young people today have little knowledge of where their food is coming from or the opportunities that careers in agriculture might hold.

S11 Ep11 | 6m 1s

Peaches make the top ten when it comes to favorite fruits. But peaches are much more than just a great summer snack.

S11 Ep11 | 5m 9s

You may not have realized it, but shoeing a horse is a bit of science and a bit of art.

S11 Ep11 | 4m 11s

The transition from military to civilian life often brings challenges in both how one lives his or her life and what the future holds in careers.

S11 Ep9 | 6m 1s

Chef Sharon Profis turns the lowly mushroom into main dish meals that serve up not one but several kinds of mushrooms.

S11 Ep9 | 5m 20s

You often hear us talk about food for your table. Well, in the farm fields of eastern Nebraska, agricultural efforts also feed the creative soul on a one of a kind Art Farm.

S11 Ep9 | 4m 25s

John and Cathie Orr decided that their life in California Gold Country should be shared with urban folks who might never get the chance to discover what life is like on the farm.

S11 Ep9 | 3m 27s

High electric bills caused Wisconsin’s Crave Brothers Dairy to think about using manure to make electricity,

S11 Ep8 | 4m 12s

Blueberries make the list as one of the most popular items in the produce section.

S11 Ep8 | 4m 4s

Predators like the Verroa mite and Colony Collapse Disorder are taking a toll on tens of thousands of bee hives across the United States.

S11 Ep8 | 5m 53s

Travel to a farm in central Oregon where colorful crops draw thousands of visitors to the farm each year.

S11 Ep8 | 3m 45s

John High has made it his mission to save as many old Pennsylvania barns as he can.

S11 Ep7 | 5m 52s

Sharon Profis has a recipe that takes the sweet goodness of candied oranges and combines it with a Lemon-Walnut dressing to create a spectacular dish.

S11 Ep7 | 4m 32s

The Sousa family raises lots of conventional crops on the Central California farm.

S11 Ep7 | 4m 49s

Iowa Farmers Mike and Diane Furlong raise vines for wines instead of Iowa’s better-known crops.

S11 Ep7 | 4m 6s

Wisconsin’s Baerwolf brothers discovered that some of their customers want organic milk while others want traditional dairy products.

S11 Ep6 | 5m 57s

Tucson, Arizona; the perfect climatic conditions for cactus farming, and for a variety of cactus flowering possibilities.

S11 Ep6 | 4m 47s

Arkansas’ Brantley family have been working their central Arkansas land for generations with soybeans being key in their rotation of crops.

S11 Ep6 | 4m 14s

In Georgia, farmers are simply “nuts” about their crop! That’s because they harvest over a billion pounds of peanuts a year.

S11 Ep6 | 3m 14s

Koy Flowers is one of thousands who converge on Columbia, Tennessee to celebrate the virtues of a widely misunderstood animal – the mule.

S11 Ep5 | 6m 4s

Sharon Profis says a good carrot soup requires much more than just carrots!

S11 Ep5 | 3m 23s

Ben Trapani and his family are the fourth generation to work their fruit orchards in New York’s Hudson Valley.

S11 Ep5 | 3m 42s

Meet an Ohio farm family whose work focuses on agriculture at home and abroad.

S11 Ep5 | 3m 57s

Cecil Byrum could not have been happier when his son decided to join him in raising crops on their farms near Windsor, Virginia.

S11 Ep4 | 5m 36s

Don Simoni started growing mushrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now Don has developed boxed mushroom kits.

S11 Ep4 | 3m 2s

Minnesota’s Native Americans have a long history harvesting wild wild rice.

S11 Ep4 | 6m 22s

The music of the American South often has its roots in the rhythms and lyrics that emerged from field hands.

S11 Ep4 | 4m 19s

The residents of Chaparral, New Mexico have “gone back to school” and are converting their desert landscape to productive produce fields.

S11 Ep3 | 3m 59s

The farms around Yuma, Arizona are bringing in the lettuce harvest to ship across the country.

S11 Ep3 | 5m 43s

Chef Sharon Profis shows you how to combine sausage, eggs, herbs and cauliflower into a popular one dish flavorful frittata.

S11 Ep3 | 5m 39s

The program, called Farmers Feed Florida, works with regional food banks to harvest produce that might otherwise have gone to waste.

S11 Ep3 | 4m 17s

See how this growing dietary preference for gluten-free foods is providing new opportunities for farmers like Bruce Wright in Montana.

S11 Ep2 | 4m 50s

The Shaw family has been working their Illinois farm for more than two hundred years.

S11 Ep2 | 3m 32s

Farms, like personal fortunes, are often subject to the whims of fate. History treats some with kindness, others with callous disregard.

S11 Ep2 | 5m

Come summer, John and his crew will move thousands of sheep from one pasture area to another.

S11 Ep2 | 4m 19s

Farmer Tom Delehanty move their fields to provide feed for their chickens, turkeys and ducks.

S11 Ep1 | 4m 15s

Michael Bosworth wanted to get his sushi rice to consumers by selling direct to restaurants.

S11 Ep1 | 6m 1s

Sharon shows you how to create a Mediterranean flavored burger and serve it up with a special homemade Green Goddess dressing.

S11 Ep1 | 3m 28s

David Hula has been one of the country’s top corn producers every year since 2000.

S11 Ep1 | 4m 13s

School officials in Madison, Wisconsin decided to bring chefs into the classroom and let students prepare foods.