Perennial Plate

We heard stories of Americans from generations past and others just off the boat. We were inspired and sadened by what we saw, heard and experienced.

We met with a fisherman on the Peoria River who was tackling the very fish who could soon be invading your nearest river.

The ideas of cooperative work are central to many movements in Latin America. Nelson Escobar has brought those ideas from his home in El Salvador to Louisville, Kentucky.

It's not often that you look out your suburban backyard to find a man herding goats, but that is what people in one neighborhood in Louisville experie...

The backyard chicken trend is becoming more and more prevalent these days. But in many North American cities, keeping a flock of hens is still illegal.

In the event of a nuclear disaster, zombies taking over the planet, or industrial food collapse -- the subject of our latest film is who you'd want to be friends with.

Over the course of 30 years, the island of Boca Grande in Florida went from having zero iguanas to over 10,000. This invasive species was making it im...

Cheap food is not really cheap. We made this short film in Immokalee Florida, where a third of the tomatoes in our grocery stores are grown.

There are two types of mullet in Florida: One is a hair style made popular in the nineties, the other is a type of fish. We chose to focus on the latter (sorry, but it's super sustainable and really healthy).

Food Informants is a week-in-the-life series profiling fascinating people in the food world. We hope it will give you a first-hand look at the many di...

On our way through South Carolina, we cooked and collaborated on a multi-course dinner with Sean Brock (of Husk and McCrady's) consisting entirely of ...

When our road trip took us through South Carolina, we asked Sean Brock (the Chef at Husk) about farmers to check out near Charleston, he recommended ...

In this week's episode we visit a school garden and take a class on radishes with Ashley Rouse of Georgia Organics. Kids are in a lot of our videos - ...

WARNING: do not watch if you are hungry and are without easy access to Vietnamese food.

I'd known about Prince Charles' organic farm since I was a kid. But I always thought because he was royalty, the farm was more of a fun pastime as opposed to a step in the fight to change the system.

There have been a lot of Farm to Table dinners over the years, and a lot of videos about those meals. We are here to end all that. Some videos are all...

On our way through Atlanta we stopped at a very diverse community garden run by Friends of Refugees. It's home to the vegetable patches of Iraqis, Bu...

John McEntire is the only person in the world that grows Crooked Creek Corn, a once common crop in the South East.

On our way across North Carolina, we stopped to chat with some Native American Farmers trying to change the food and work situation in their communities.

Sometimes (often) our videos are about what I'm in the mood to eat. Such was the case in this all short trip we took along the Rappahannock River. It was just long enough to give you a look into the sustainability of oysters.

Apparently Canadian Geese aren't supposed to be hanging out in Virginia in huge numbers -- eating wine makers' grapes.

Culled from dozens of entries followed by four finalists, this is the winner of our First Perennial Plate Video Competition.

After putting out over 80 episodes about real food in America, we wanted to give our viewers a chance to share their work. And so we launched our Perennial Plate Video Competition.

Its the holiday season, a time when people tend to eat a lot and waste even more. This video embraces the opposite. It is the not so un-common story of a family that dumpster dives.

After watching chickens get slaughtered in Queens and vegetables grow in several boroughs, this Manhattan video is just a montage of our wonderful dinner at Prune Restaurant one evening in September.