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Moonshine Without The GMO Corn

Daniel Klein | Posted 04.01.2012

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Daniel Klein

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

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Send Your Orphan Heirlooms Home

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Photos, History, Inheritance, Detective, Genealogy, Immigrants, Irish, Family History, Stuff, Heirloom, Diary, Entertainment News
Megan Smolenyak

About a decade ago, I accidentally launched into a sub-hobby of genealogy - one I refer to as orphan heirloom rescues. The idea is to return items to descendants of their original owners.

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Every Seed Has A Story

Daniel Klein | Posted 07.26.2011

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Daniel Klein

Along our road trip across the United States, we are filming a lot more than we are able to fit into the weekly episodes. Crossing Iowa, there were s...

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Teens Need Kitchen Counter-Culture

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah Newman

It's ironic that teens today are correctly pushing the social agenda in their schools to allow a diversity of identities to be expressed but are consuming foods that have little nutritional value and are uniform.

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A Blight On Summer: Where Have All the Tomatoes Gone?

Michele Kayal | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michele Kayal

This weekend I was asked to pass judgment on tomatoes. Which is far better than water because a) they have an actual taste, and b) good tomatoes are so hard to come by.

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