Multiple Western Growers Members Featured During Season 17 of PBS’s “America’s Heartland” Season 17 of “America’s Heartland”—PBS’s stalwart TV show that goes behind-the-scenes on how farmers work to feed the world—is dedicated to specialty crop growers, and a number of Western Growers members will be featured in the coming weeks! The premiere episode of the season, which debuted in July, featured Western Growers members Far West Fungi, based in San Bruno, Calif., and Live Oak Farms, based in Le Grand, Calif. “America’s Heartland” details the career journey of Far West Fungi Owner John Garrone to his current position as one of the country’s pre-eminent mushroom farmers. “When I started working in the mushroom business, I was still a member of the communications staff of the San Francisco Police Department,” Garrone said. “Basically I was dispatching police cars at night and selling mushrooms in the morning.” The episode also visits the Central Valley to focus on Live Oak’s bell pepper production. “You can look for [our peppers] in grocery stores and I’m sure you’re eating them at restaurants,” says Live Oak’s head of Marketing and Product Innovation Briana Giampaoli. “It’s really great for me, as a farmer, to know that we are helping feed America.” Later in the season, Grapery’s Cotton Candy Grape—the savior of parents everywhere looking to get more nutritious foods into their children’s diets—took centerstage. The show visits the company’s Shafter, Calif. headquarters and interviews Grapery Founder Jack Pandol and CEO Jim Beagle about how they use the fruit’s diverse gene pool to develop new grape shapes and flavor profiles. “California agriculture has become, in my lifetime, a much more modern and sophisticated business,” Beagle says. Episodes of “America’s Heartland” can be viewed on your area’s PBS station throughout September—check your local listings for exact date and time; more than 90 percent of all PBS stations in the country carry the show—as well as on PBS.org; the PBS standalone app; “America’s Heartland’s” website and YouTube; as well as weekly on RFD-TV. “America’s Heartland” is a production of Sacramento’s PBS KVIE. —Ann Donahue
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