Hurricane Florence was targeting Campbell Coxe’s farm. Days earlier, the 2018 storm had rapidly intensified in the Atlantic, and now Darlington County, South Carolina, was in the path. Coxe had to ...

Industrial farming of corn–not just for consumption, but for making materials like bioplastic and fuel–has led to less prolific maize species becoming endangered. In Mexico, designer Fernando Laposse ...

Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he shares his five top tips for growing sweetcorn in your garden. Learn when to plant, how to prepare the perfect soil, and the best methods for block planting and ...

Cherokee White Eagle Corn, Compass Plant, and Georgia Candy Roaster Squash are a few of the heirloom plants distributed by the Cherokee Nation Seed Bank in its years of programming. Illustration by ...

KRAGNES, Minn. - The harvesters break off dried corn stalks at the base with a brisk snap. They twist off the ears and place them in recycled plastic grocery bags. A few of the pickers - anxious to ...

IXTENCO, Mexico -- On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he's had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried ...

I maintain that buying seeds is truly the best kind of shopping—seeds are relatively affordable and are literally bursting with potential. Quite frankly, I think seeds are a miracle; you get a small ...

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