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Episode 8 | 24m 40s
All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving. Young Hispanic farm laborers in California’s Salinas Valley are moving up the economic ladder, training to become tomorrow’s organic farm owners. In Houston, Congolese refugees are creating communities around vacant urban lots.
Aired: 09/18/14
Video has closed captioning.From the Founding Farmers to the modern Farm Bill, what has 200 years of progress brought?
Once, wild food was all there was. If you didn’t pick, catch, or kill it, you didn’t eat.
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Americans throw away 34 million tons of food each year, a quarter of the groceries we buy.
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All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving.
A new breed of passionate farmers, chefs and scientists are revamping our food system.
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