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City Kids, Rural Life

Discover how Farm Stay vacations are giving city kids a chance to discover rural America. Call them “hay-cations.” On Farm to Fork, fun with fungi and a special recipe for pasta. See how a Wisconsin dairy farm turns cow manure into an energy source. And travel to Nebraska where artists find rural life peaceful and inspiring to their creative work.
Season 19 Episode 7 Length 26:30 Premiere: 05/18/26

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Season 19 Episodes

An Iowa Farm Family's Story
S19 E13 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 06/29/26

Restoring Native Grasses
S19 E12 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 06/22/26

Prize Winning Peaches
S19 E11 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 06/15/26

Best Heartland Music
S19 E10 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 06/08/26

Wild Horse Refuge
S19 E9 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 06/01/26

Utah Cattle Drive
S19 E8 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 05/25/26

City Kids, Rural Life
S19 E7 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 05/18/26

Oregon Tulip Farm
S19 E6 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 05/11/26

Sweet Potato Vodka
S19 E5 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 05/04/26

Cactus Farming
S19 E4 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 04/27/26

New York Apple Harvest
S19 E3 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 04/20/26

US Winter Salad Bowl
S19 E2 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 04/13/26

Largest Corn Harvest
S19 E1 Length 26:30 Premiere Date 04/06/26

Nebraska Art Farm
Clip Length 05:41 Premiere Date 05/18/26

Farm to Fork: Mushroom Pasta
Clip Length 06:56 Premiere Date 05/18/26

Wisconsin Farm Turns Manure into Energy
Clip Length 04:22 Premiere Date 05/18/26

Urban Visitors Take "Haycations"
Clip Length 05:29 Premiere Date 05/18/26

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America's Heartland - S19 E8

A Utah ranching family moves their cattle from winter grazing land to summer pasture.

  • Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:30 am ET on KET2
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America's Heartland - S19 E9

A program to save wild mustangs in California; a South Dakota farm family brings wheat to the dinner table; a California winery once owned by a film director dedicated to sustainable growing; efforts to save tall grass prairie in Kansas.

  • Wednesday July 1, 2026 8:30 am ET on KET2
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America's Heartland - S19 E10

Rodney Dillard returns to his farming roots; singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey salutes American agriculture; bringing in the crop with a 30-mule team hitch; how to add some zing to zucchini.

  • Wednesday July 8, 2026 8:30 am ET on KET2
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America's Heartland - S19 E11

A South Carolina family that has been raising peaches for nearly a century; bringing in the harvest in the cranberry bogs of Massachusetts; maple sugaring in Vermont; California farmers find new overseas markets for their strawberries.

  • Wednesday July 15, 2026 8:30 am ET on KET2
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