Not only are we supposed to "eat our vegetables," we are now supposed to "know our vegetables" as well. That is the project a professor of nutrition at a small college assigns himself, to get out of his office and into the field to dig deeper into the reality behind the ingredients in his summer salad. Using the up-close-and-personal approach, he follows a solitary vegetable (pardon, fruit) from seed to harvest on a nearby small farm. With the help of two students, he adopts and then chronicles on film the life of a single tomato plant over the course of a growing season. After visiting a...