America's Heartland

America's Heartland

Farming, ranching and food production from the farmers of America to you. A national evolution of California, a popular and critically acclaimed series. Produced by KVIE Public Television in Sacramento, California. The show airs weekly on public television stations across the US.

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20 Episodes

  • 201
    E1
    201Visit the Sims cattle ranch in Wyoming and generating new revenue. Travel to Florida to learn growing grapefruits. Discover where the watermelons are found. Back in Wyoming, meet a rancher who raises yaks and puts yak steaks to the test.
  • 202
    E2
    202Willie Nelson supports soybean bio-diesel fuel. The biggest and baddest farm machinery in Kentucky. California farmers restore past tractors and trucks. Celebrate the mule in Tennessee. Texans compete at nationals to restore old tractors.
  • 203
    E3
    203A coast-to-coast effort to help farm families keep their young ones safe is in full effect. Examine the struggles farm families have when spring arrives. Indiana's famed hardwood stays within its state to be used by local cabinet makers.
  • 204
    E4
    204Nature always has the last word.. Experience the Great Western Show. Farmers must improvise and innovate when a crop becomes unprofitable or unpopular. Bug farming is a pretty hot business if you grow the right ones.
  • 205
    E5
    205Nature always has the last word. Experience the Great Western Show. Farmers must improvise and innovate when a crop becomes unprofitable or unpopular. Bug farming is a pretty hot business if you grow the right ones.
  • 206
    E6
    206American farm meets the Chicago Board of Trade. Farmers are seeking income in tourism. Texan rural towns turning their history and hard work into a selling point for tourists. Start kids young and let them discover with their own hands.
  • 207
    E7
    207Feeding America during World War Two as Mexicans were invited here. The early Spanish settlers descendants opened Texas to cattle ranching and farming. Georgia farmers grow and harvest peaches. Meet Mas Masumoto, a California farmer.
  • 208
    E8
    208Country music. A shrimp boat operator tells a story of Hurricane Katrina. California Almond farmers grow 80% of the world's supply, with honeybees. Tennessee farmers produce freshwater pearls by planting a healthy mollusk into a shell.
  • 209
    E9
    209Across the heartland, there's a growing interest and concern about preserving our nation's precious farmland. Farmers markets are booming across the U.S. Visit a winemaker in Kentucky-not the usual location for a winery.
  • 210
    E10
    210The Mississippi River helped grow Americs into a great agricultural superpower. Explore Mark Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" literature. Visit the city of St. Louis, MIssouri. Visit the Mississippi Delta.
  • 211
    E11
    211The Fulton Fish Market has a new location. Find some tasty veggies both in Iowa and Manhattan. Caviar is one of the most expensive foods in the world, and a San Francisco restaurant is introduced to many domestic varieties.
  • 212
    E12
    212America's agrarian roots that shaped out culture. Our farm communities were originally tied by a common background or religion; some have assimilated into mainstream America. Gardening is one of America' s biggest hobbies.
  • 213
    E13
    213Greenmarket has been inviting regional farmers into NYC. Rice bringing back South Carolina. Arkansas is home to Riceland Foods. Visit the Tulmeadow Farm produced everything from chickens to chutney. Visit largest alpaca ranch in Ohio
  • 214
    E14
    214Help your local farmer and buy their locally produced crops. Visit the Garlic Festival in California. Visit our country's only tea plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. Life couldn't be sweeter for Kristin Ford in Oregon.
  • 215
    E15
    215Celebrate the harvest season with a Tractorcade in Iowa. A South Carolina hog farmer. It's a harvest straight from the sea. Meet a female aquaculture farmer who is a shellfish harvester. Celebrate the end of the harvest..
  • 216
    E16
    216Visit the Matanuska outside Anchorage, Alaska where farmers grow incredibly large vegetables. The Alaska State Fair is the best place. Alaskan waters produce for than seven hundred million pounds of tasty king crab, whitefish, and salmon.
  • 217
    E17
    217Learn the cowboy profession at a Cowboy College. One week in January each year, thousands of cowboys share their lives as range rhymers. Experience cowboy.. Who was the first American author to capture the grit and spirit of the West?
  • 218
    E18
    218Potatoes are getting high-tech treatment and explore a program in Wisconsin that helps farmers overcome disabilities. Visit Death Valley, CA that grows sweet dates. Learn how Oregon farmers keep hazelnut alive. A corn maze in Utah.
  • 219
    E19
    219Midwest farmers cope with drought. Visit Castle Valley Greenhouses producing red, ripe tomatoes. A Connecticut family saves their farm by asking for help. Paleontologists flock to St. George, Utah to the biggest dinosaur discovery site.
  • 220
    E20
    220Poultry is a demanding business. A farmer works hard to producing eggs. Wisconsin wears the cranberry crown. California is shaking up those trees deep inside the almond grove. Dahlia is a blossoming business in Oregon.

 

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