Market Farming

["Wiediger, Alison" <awiediger AT HART.k12.ky.us>]

Depression? Heck, I grew up eating 'roasun ears' out of my Granddaddy's
cornfields.  We ate it and put it into the freezer - didn't even mess with
those "tiny" sweet corn ears - took too many of them to fill a freezer
container.  Don't know how old I was before I realized we were saying
"roasting ears" - probably an adult.  I remember being amazed when a science
teacher in Jr. High proclaimed that field corn " wasn't fit for human
consumption".  I'm sure I corrected her, and probably got called down for
it!   Roasun Ears were only good to eat fresh for 2 or 3 days - so when my
Granddaddy called us to say it was ready - we got over there fast to put up
our winter store.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm (SC KY)

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> From:         Art Petrzelka[SMTP:art AT complum.com]
> You can eat field corn, too. My parents did during the depression. They
> talked about gathering some once in a while, but I never experienced it.
> There is only a 2 or 3 day window when you can eat it. Field corn goes
> from milk stage to dough stage very quickly.
> 
> This would have been open-pollinated Reid's Yellow Dent corn from saved
> seed.
>