Each year, more than a billion pounds of perfectly good produce in the U.S. goes to waste, left in fields or rejected by retailers simply because it was not pretty enough.
Where The Food Comes From gives us a look at how one grassroots program is helping turn farm waste into crucial nourishment.
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You’ve probably heard that if you drop food it’s still clean and edible as long as you pick it up within 5 seconds. Sorry, not true!
“Where The Food Comes From” visits M&B Products, a milk bottling plant in Temple Terrace, FL (a suburb of Tampa) with its farm in Lecanto, operated by the McClellan family. Get ready for a lesson in everything from milk bottling, to dairy nutrition, and bovine reproduction!
Mary Days is a contributor and good friend of “Where the Food Comes From,” and enjoys joining us on shoots in Florida. This is her behind-the-scenes take on what a day looks like filming with the crew.
Would you believe it’s possible to have a dairy barn where all you smell is clean fresh country air? Leon McLellan of M&B Products in Temple Terrace, FL shows us how!
If chocolate milke doesn’t come from brown cows (and strawberry milk certainly doesn’t come from pink ones), then where does it come from? Get the scoop!
