Grow your own heirloom field corn with our diverse collection of flour, flint, and dent corn varieties—each selected for flavor, performance, and historical value. These open-pollinated heirloom field corn varieties are ideal for grinding into grits, cornmeal, and fresh flour for tortillas. Many also make excellent choices for roasting, parching, or even crafting small-batch bourbon. Whether you're growing for the homestead or the hobby mill, you'll find a variety worth saving here.
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Halloween is almost here, so this week we're sharing a little garden science that's part nature documentary, part horror film. Tiny wasps laying eggs inside living caterpillars, larvae feeding on their hosts from the inside out, and a virus that helps orchestrate the whole gruesome affair. Fortunately, this horror story has a happy ending—at least for you and your tomatoes.
As this season wraps up, we’re taking some time to reflect on the garden—what worked, what didn’t, and the lessons we learned along the way. And this year, one lesson came in the form of a very large, very hungry green caterpillar. The tomato hornworm can be astonishingly destructive, and yet it's also an important pollinator. Join us as we share the results of our (mostly) hands-off experiment in natural pest control.
Fermentation is a centuries-old method of preserving the harvest. But recent research suggests that when those vegetables are harvested can have a surprising impact on the quality of the finished ferment. In this week’s post, we’re exploring how frost may alter the flavor, nutrition, and probiotic potential of fermented foods.
