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Season 1 Episode 13 | 26m 46s

Visit Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where two brothers are running sheep for a living. Meet Oliver H. Kelley, son of a Boston tailor and founder of the national grange. While most farmers are planting in June, the Olmsteads are picking rainier cherries! Meet a band of bakers that is busy turning out 32 hundred apple pies a day. Visit an emu at a Kansas farm!

Aired: 01/28/06
Funding for America’s Heartland is provided by US Soy, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, Rural Development Partners, and a Specialty Crop Grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
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