Hope On The Hudson: Growing with the Grain
Hope On The Hudson River Stories
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15m
Upstate New York used to be a breadbasket of grain growing. Westward expansion yielded more ideal climates for growing and production shifted to the midwest.
Scientists, farmers, bakers and brewers take part in a grain trial test that hopes to produce a new generation of grain suited for the northeast, bringing sustainable and more localised grain production back to the region.
A Jon Bowermaster Film
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