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Everybody here calls her ma. >> drema: 58 years, i was born and raised here. >> producer: you ever think about leaving? >> drema: no. >> leshawna: homemade biscuits, homemade gravy. >> lola: fried taters. >> anthony: fried potatoes, excellent. >> leshawna: dear lord, we come to you this day to thank you for this food and bless the hands that fixed this food. and thank you for each and every living day. amen. >> group: amen. >> drema: and thank you for letting us meet more friends. >> lola: yes. >> anthony: well thank you for having me. >> anthony: you're working on a farm nearby, is that right...

>> adam: exactly right. horsepower is not always the key to success. but it's always a lot of fun. >> mike: hopefully you can come back and try the barbie jeep thing. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ >> anthony: guns are a fact of life around here. whether as a means to defend your isolated home, get yourself dinner when there's no place else to get it, or just for the fun of shooting stuff. the feeling that gun ownership is an absolute right, immutable, and non-negotiable runs deep here. >> anthony: everybody's backyard look like this? >> ashley mcmillion: ours does. >> anthony: justin and ashley mcmilli...

Selling for $30 a pound in new york city that we're harvesting in west virginia, and what's west virginia seeing from that? probably a guy that got about $2 a pound. >> emily hillard: it becomes just another extractive industry like coal or timber. and you sort of start to see that -- >> anthony: that's the story of west virginia. >> emily: yeah. >> anthony: chef mike costello and partner amy dawson are looking to keep that culture alive and appreciate it, and paying off locally for the region it originated in. “lost creek farm” is their place. and the nucleus of that effort is the garden....

Time, like 30 years ago? >> miner: my personal opinion? every time a republican is in there it goes up. >> anthony: right. [ laughter ] this used to be a solidly democratic state. what do you think made trump attractive? hilary shows up here and she openly said she's going to put a lot of coal miners out of work. wrong answer. >> anthony: how many kids you got? >> miner: i got three. >> patrick: six. >> anthony: if you saw your kids had other options, would you recommend that they join the family business? >> group: no sir. >> anthony: you would say no. >> richard: i'd about guarantee that eve...

Well, you all have xfinity home, with cameras to home security monitored by the pros. *laughs* learn more about home security or get our self-monitored solution starting at just $10 per month. ♪ >> anthony: lola cline is a single mother of four children. and in many ways, emblematic of both the difficulties and inherent strengths of people around here. >> anthony: where do you find them? trees or on the ground? >> lola: trees. >> anthony: mostly up in the trees. >> lola: squirrels are more like -- it's a waiting game. find us a place and see -- and