Episode 6

Visit a walnut farm where the debris from the harvest is used to enrich the soil. Craig McNamara, his family, and their longtime workers have been harvesting walnuts on this 350-acre farm for more than forty years. California farms nearly a half-million acres of walnuts and produces 99-percent of all the walnuts grown in America.

Learn how to make an appetizer with Whipped Goat Cheese with Dates and Bacon.

Tour a cheese plant in Tennessee that provides a home for the milk from a co-op of Minnesota dairy farmers.

How do you pronounce endive? We find out at the largest endive producer in America. Endives originated in Belgium, where almost two centuries ago, a chicory farmer found out, quite by accident, that long-term cold storage of chicory plants would produce tender, tasty leaves.