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America's Heartland

City Kids, Rural Life

Season 19 Episode 7

Discover how Farm Stay vacations are giving city kids a chance to discover rural America. Call them “hay-cations.” On Farm to Fork, fun with fungi and a special recipe for pasta. See how a Wisconsin dairy farm turns cow manure into an energy source. And travel to Nebraska where artists find rural life peaceful and inspiring to their creative work.

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Best Heartland Music
26:30
Best of Heartland music with Rodney Dillard, Michael Martin Murphey. Mule team brings in harvest.
Wild Horse Refuge
26:30
Refuge saves wild horses. Hi-tech wheat grower. Preserving the tall grass prairie in Kansas.
Utah Cattle Drive
26:30
Join us on a Utah cattle drive across the wide-open spaces of the American West.
Oregon Tulip Farm
26:30
Oregon farm raises tulips. Protecting pollinating bees. Man saves and restores old barns.
Sweet Potato Vodka
26:30
Sweet potatoes become popular vodka. “Sassy” cows help create special cheese and ice cream.
Cactus Farming
26:30
Cactus farm finds success. Georgia peanut harvest. “Mule Days” draws fans of the farm animal.
New York Apple Harvest
26:30
“Big Apple” harvest in New York. Ohio family sells crops overseas. Tasty new carrot soup recipe.
US Winter Salad Bowl
26:30
U.S. winter “salad bowl.” Florida farmers feed the hungry. Montana growers raise gluten-free crops.
Largest Corn Harvest
26:30
Rice farmer sells directly to consumers. Virginia corn grower reaps nation’s largest harvest.
Episode 10
26:46
Meet a first-generation farmer inspired by childhood dishes, and visit a women-led farm.
1809
26:46
A farm offers free farm stands, and doctors prescribe fruits and vegetables to patients.
1808
26:46
A San Francisco farm inspires urban farming, and a husband-and-wife team grows flowers.
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