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# 111
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/americas-heartland/episode/americas-heartland-111/
- Published: 2024-05-08T14:08:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T08:51:52.000Z
- Description: From tobacco to strawberries and flowers in NC, and what’s destroying the heartland?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: America's Heartland, Season 1, Episode 11, #ZZZ_Episode_e14de551-dd50-407f-b58a-99afeab95697, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_e2dd9911-ad05-4ab5-aadb-338e5c6e1486, #v1.16

Smoking is at an all-time low in our country— what are tobacco farmers producing instead? Visit old barns as they bring back the simple life in the heartland. Leafy spurge is invading farms around America, and nature’s offering a surprising solution. See what a couple discovered during a vacation to Florida! Artist John Cerney is inspired by Ca’s fertile Salinas Valley and beyond.