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America's Heartland
| Website: | http://www.americasheartland.org |
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| Next Airing: | Thu, Mar 20th, 2025 at 3:00 AM on UEN-TV |
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AMERICA'S HEARTLAND celebrates the men and women across who grow the country's crops, raise its livestock, tend its nurseries and prepare its food. AMERICA'S HEARTLAND taps into the national fascination with food and curiosity about unfamiliar places and ways of life, while also exploring the American values of family, hard work and the spirit of independence. The series, produced entirely on location, portrays the worlds of agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture complete with fascinating stories, compelling characters, innovative ideas and enticing travel destinations.
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Utah eco-friendly ranch family is honored; young Nebraska couple begins farming; research leads to better chicken for consumers; New England company restores historic barns.
Next Airing: Thu, Mar 20th, 2025 at 3:00 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:25:41 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025 -
Rob Stewart is taking us cross country this time for a visit to some of the fairs and festivals that celebrate our rural lifestyle. You'll head for some good eating at the National Cornbread Festival in Tennessee. You'll meet a Wisconsin teenager whose future lies in dairy farming, but whose hobby is demolition derby driving at rural county fairs. Country cooking is on the menu as Chef Sharon Profis serves up tasty dishes using barley and a small Iowa city pulls out all the stops for its annual town festival.
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 23rd, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Reporter Jason Shoultz examines how consumer demands are changing production techniques on farms and ranches across the country. A California poultry producer makes changes to impact animal welfare. An Idaho produce company lets consumers track their produce right back to the field. Wheat farmers find support from bakers in Kansas City and a San Francisco airline kitchen meets dining demands with the help of California produce farmers.
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 30th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Rob Stewart takes you coast to coast to meet some farm and ranch families with some special talents when it comes to being creative. A Tennessee craftsman builds historic dulcimers that harken back to America's past. A Wisconsin dairy farmer does double duty as a woodcarver. A Wyoming woman uses sheep's wool for one of a kind art projects and a Kansas farm family creates a country attraction that teaches young folks about agriculture.
Next Airing: Sun, Apr 6th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Rob Stewart says dairy foods are an important part of the daily diets for many people: milk in their morning cereal, yogurt for lunch, even cheese and crackers as a party appetizer. Rob shows us how Idaho dairy farmers work to protect rivers and streams. Meet a Tennessee couple making award winning goat cheese. We'll run down the steps in making Cottage Cheese in "Off the Shelf", discover a flavorful dairy dish for your next party in "Farm to Fork" and go door to door for home delivery with a Minnesota milkman.
Next Airing: Sun, Apr 13th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Head south for an H2O harvest of crawfish in Louisiana. Sample some exotic recipes made with Belgian endive. Join the search as "working dogs" look for dangerous plant pests and celebrate a special anniversary as an Ohio farm family marks two hundred years of working their land.
Next Airing: Sun, Apr 20th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Bring in the colorful harvest on a Florida blueberry farm. Pass the salt and learn about the history of popcorn. Cook up some unique asparagus recipes with Sharon Profis and climb to new heights at a New Orleans rooftop farm.
Next Airing: Sun, Apr 27th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
A rural community celebrates its crops with "Art on a Silo". A California vineyard combines grapes and olive oil for fine dining. The National Cornbread Festival delivers plenty to eat. Learn about the colorful history of carrots.
Next Airing: Sun, May 4th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Reporter Akiba Howard helps haul in a harvest of potatoes in Colorado. An Idaho farm creates new potato varieties to meet consumer demand. An Arkansas family stakes their future on growing large sweet potatoes. Sharon Profis is in the kitchen with a unique potato recipe.
Next Airing: Sun, May 11th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Reporter John Lobertini takes us to the rocky coast of Maine where lobster fishermen are facing new challenges as they harvest crustaceans from the Atlantic Ocean. Sarah Gardner discovers how Arkansas farmers are finding fish farming to be profitable hundreds of miles from the ocean. A special kind of oyster farming in Maryland's is helping clean up pollution in Chesapeake Bay.
Next Airing: Sun, May 18th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Reporter Yolanda Vazquez takes us to meet a New York family finding success in raising crops without soil. Rob Stewart travels to Louisiana where one grocery store has a produce garden on the roof of its building. It's science and not soil for researchers in Arizona creating food and fuel from algae. Travel to the waters off the coast of Maine where fishermen haul in a harvest of seaweed.
Next Airing: Sun, May 25th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Travel back in time to Kentucky land that's been farmed by the same family for more than 200 years. Examine the science behind the effort to develop America's best-looking lawns. Take your pick of some great apricot recipes, and join Louisiana trackers on the hunt for feral hogs destroying farmland.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 1st, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Unravel the secrets behind new research that shows Washington State farmers how to grow more wheat with less water. Then, tempt your taste buds with apples in New Jersey and gain knowledge about turkeys you may not have previously had.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 8th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Learn lessons as you go back to class at a summer farm school in New England. Then, accompany Jason Shoultz to unravel a mystery of meat, and join California nuns in the tasty tradition of making olive oil.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 15th, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
Join America's Heartland as we visit Midwestern farmers during the busy harvest season. We'll see how they're using the newest age technology to improve yield and improve soil health and the environment. It's all about a renewed commitment to sustainability.
Next Airing: Sun, Jun 22nd, 2025 at 12:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/9/2020 to 4/8/2026 -
An Illinois farm's "country connection" includes hosting weddings. Two Michigan sisters grow ripe red apples while protecting the environment. Discover "life on the range" with some tasty campfire cooking.
Length: 00:26:30 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025 -
Travel to Montana for a one-of-a-kind sheep roundup. Experience apple harvest time in New England. Discover how one farmer's soybeans end up as products in your home.
Length: 00:26:30 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025 -
Head south to visit a century-old South Carolina family peach farm. Cranberries are harvested in Massachusetts. Making maple syrup in Vermont, and new consumers find CA strawberries.
Length: 00:26:30 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025 -
Saddle up with city folk on a Utah cattle drive. Colorado female rancher works with environmentalists. Learn the cowboy life out on the range.
Length: 00:26:30 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025 -
In this special episode, we join U.S. growers as they discover how their grain products are used in Egypt and Morocco. American ranchers also help a Moroccan farmer raise healthier cattle.
Length: 00:25:41 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025 -
Celebrate Americans working together to make a difference: overcoming hardships and disabilities to continue working the land. It's a cross-country look at Heartland Heroes.
Length: 00:26:30 Usage rights: 5/15/2022 to 5/14/2025