The All-American Peanut: History, Heritage & Flavor

But we're going to really talk about America and its love for peanuts.

And there's some interesting history.

There's history of them in wars.

There's history of them in famine time.

There's history of them of just really what they've done in agriculture for our country as well.

So welcome back, Donna.

How are you doing?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing great.

Thank you for having me on again.

I love this because we're going to talk about America and celebrate America's 250 because Fourth of July is here.

And also we're celebrating the 250 years of America being a United States and the United States.

And You know, and I started doing some research on this and a lot of it I've learned from you going on your tours at the peanut patch itself.

But really, this is actually a very historic agricultural

item in the country.

Yes, it really is.

A lot of history with peanuts.

Yeah, I was looking.

You know, I think we always go Georgia, Washington, Carver.

And then, you know, we've got some presidential history with peanuts as well.

So I think we kind of go there, but I didn't realize that it was actually one of America's original freedom crops.

And that's a big deal because it was something easier to grow.

And I think people also grew them because they were good for the soil.

Yes, very good.

They have a lot of hydrogen or nitrogen, excuse me, it's nitrogen that they actually put back into the soil.