Every day is Earth Day for farmers and ranchers. In honor of Earth Day this week, Tractor Supply® volunteers planted trees on a farm just south of Nashville.
The company has made it a tradition to do something extraordinary on Earth Day that gives back to the community and the environment, and some Middle Tennessee residents will get the benefits for years to come.
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Show producer Donna Sanders shares her perspective on filming the latest episode of Where the Food Comes From at Splenda Stevia Farms, a company growing a sweet specialty crop here in the U.S. that is typically imported from overseas.
Splenda’s new stevia farm in Florida is the first of its kind in the United States. Thousands of plants produce millions of leaves that are then turned into plant-based stevia sweetener products. But how do they get the sweet stuff out?
What does Splenda have to do with farming? Sweeteners like monk fruit and stevia are plant-based — so they are just not sugar, but are comprised of those other plants also grown on farms.
