Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years (By Sean B. Carroll)
It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall stalks with ears ripe for picking by late August.
Corn is much more than great summer picnic food, however. Civilization owes much to this plant, and to the early people who first cultivated it. Continue Reading Article from The New York Times
KING CORN tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-ubiquitous grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they questions about how we eat—and how we farm.
Florida-grown at Frog Song
Since we don’t use any pesticides or fungicides, we pay extra attention to our Sweet Corn.
We manage the worms that enjoy feeding on this crop and cut the ends of our for a final inspection before we transport them for the farmer’s markets or your home deliveries.
Our organic sweet corn is only here for a short while. When you can taste the difference with our crop, it’s hard to part ways when it’s out of season. It’s incredibly special to us that our customers know the value of our sweet corn