Corn

I’ve always read “great old fashioned corn flavor!” in seed catalogs to mean, “not sweet, starchy, and …well… honestly pretty bad” (kind of like “great for cooking!” in carrot descriptions). If you are seeking super-sweet Se and Se2 style corn, there are lots of hybrids to choose from (and some...

Long ago I can distinctly remember craving Amish Butter on account of a glowing catalog description….Creamy! Buttery! Needs no salt or oil! I am happy to report that it only gets better. Amish delivers on the popcorn front with large, fluffy white popcorn (though please, do drizzle with oil and...

We are not ashamed to say, in the height of the busy growing season, after a long day's work, with no motivation left to cook, we have served up our fair share of popcorn family dinners. (You thought we had anything left at the end of the day to actually...

The life work of Montana breeder Dave Christensen, Painted Mountain is one of the great farm-bred successes of our time. In a time when seed companies were breeding corn for warm, humid mid-west and east coast climates, Christensen set out to develop a more rugged, early maturing mountain corn to...

Known as "spinna rossa della Valsugana" in its native alpine home, the Sugana Valley in the Northern Italian province of Trentino, Floriani is an old land-race variety selected by the local farmers for many generations for one purpose: polenta. Like grits to the American south, polenta is at the center...

*Ark of Taste Heirloom* One of the most beautiful and best northern adapted dry corns we have grown (and listen Frenchy, we pronounce it “Callous” in these parts!). A classic 8-row northern flint originating with the Abenaki tribes of northern New England and Quebec, the variety consists of 8-10” single...