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Unlike sweet corn, it is not edible right off the cob.  It was likely bred as an ornamental variety - for obvious reasons. Many of these exquisite ears are simply too beautiful to eat.  Like many heirloom treasures, Glass Gem corn has a name, a place, and a story. Its origin traces back to Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer living in Oklahoma.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarl Barnes’ (pictured in his corn field) kaleidoscopic corn has become a beacon - and perhaps an inspiring symbol - for the global seed-saving revival. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Barnes had an uncanny knack for corn breeding. More specifically, he excelled at selecting and saving seed from those cobs that exhibited vivid, translucent colors. Like other flint corn it is excellent for polenta and hominy. 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The first parent of this lovely flour corn is Hopi Purple which we originally obtained from the old Seeds of Change collection from El Guique, NM.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWe crossed this with Magenta Parching corn which was originally bred by breeders Carol Deppe and Alan Kapuler who developed this OP variety from 7 sweet corn strains and 7 Hopi strains obtained from seedsman John Kimmey. All the parent varieties look quite similar and enabled us to bulk up a wide breadth of diverse genetics and adaptation. The result is a robust plant with drought and short season adaptation that produces 2 ears of beautiful pastel pink flour corn with good milling qualities. Can also be used for hominy, posole, masa and the like. 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Corn-breeders Carol Deppe and Alan Kapuler developed this OP variety from 7 sweet corn strains and 7 Hopi strains obtained from seedsman John Kimmey. It is cooked in a dry pan without oil for five minutes at medium-low heat, the toasting kernels start to swell and split, releasing a wonderful aroma. 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It has a mix of yellow, orange, chinmark( stripped), lighter reds and dark red kernels.  The plants are 7-8 feet tall and produce 1-2 ears per plant that are 8-12 inches long. Tillers somewhat.   Drought adapted. We offer this warm hued mix to share the wonderful experience of discovering all the beautiful diversity in stalk color, silks, tassles, husks and ears. 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The goal is to eventually develop a well adapted, reliable staple Maiz for the PNW and similar climates. It will exhibit some variability, however all will make good flour corn.  If you save seed, particularly if you do it for numerous cycles, then you are on your way to having your own Heirloom of tomorrow!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan be eaten as sweet corn when picked young and roasted, but is best known for making an excellent, sweet blue corn flour that has 30% higher protein levels (up to 14%) than dent corns. Plants are 5-8 ft. tall and bushy with many tillering side shoots.  Ears are a beautiful smooth silvery blue that are 8-10” long with usually 2, but up to 7 per stalk. 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Plants are short stalked (4-5' tall) and produce one or two 7-8\" long ears with thin cobs in a magnificent array of colors sourced from dozens of Native corns. Painted Mountain is a great choice to grow if you want to produce corn as a staple in a short season area. It is also able to produce in cooler summer area or gardens with lower light levels due to partial shading. A proven workhorse variety over many years. \"Painted Mountain grows fast even in cold climates where other corns struggle to stay alive in early spring. It also pollinates and fills out ears during the searing heat of the dry Montana summer. It takes 90 days to mature as dry grain in my cold climate, about 2-4 weeks ahead of other '90 day' corn. Some people say Painted Mountain makes dry grain in only 70 days when taken to a warmer climate. I have received many good reports of yields around 50 bu\/acre and often 60 or 70 bu\/acre. This is very good for a very early corn in a stressed location. Keep in mind that the hybrid varieties often fail completely in  high stress locations. I have gotten good production reports from every part of the USA, and many parts os the world from Siberia to South Africa. Painted Mountain will grow food where many varieties will fail. Farmers find it a very efficient food source if grazed by livestock right off the field. The lack of woodiness in the stalks and soft starch of the grain give it a higher digestibility to animals than other corns. The highly nutritious grain promises to have many uses for humans and farm animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"LTR\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" face=\"Verdana\"\u003eThe most beautiful, and one of the fastest maturing grain corns in the world for human food.  Bred to withstand cold temperatures, intense heat, drought and weather extremes, Painted Mtn is the answer to climate change and is feeding families and villages on marginal land on every continent in the world.  It is selling out so fast that some call it “The new currency”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"LTR\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" face=\"Verdana\"\u003eThe fine, soft flour starch makes it the easiest to prepare for any human food and makes the finest flour for corn bread.  It won first place for making the best tortillas. 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As the top selling ornamental corn it contains countless combinations of vivid colors you will not find anywhere else.  People frequently compare the excitement and surprise of pulling back the husks to of opening gifts at Christmas!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dave Christensen Farm","offers":[{"title":"1\/2 oz","offer_id":29569317261,"sku":"FVCOPAMOFL01","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/4 lb","offer_id":39312383082627,"sku":"FVCOPAMOFL02","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1\/2 lb","offer_id":29569317325,"sku":"FVCOPAMOFL03","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1095\/8052\/products\/Corn_Painted_Mountain-_lg..JPG?v=1546495457"},{"product_id":"corn-maize-de-concho","title":"Corn, Maiz Concho","description":"\u003cdiv title=\"Page 11\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaiz Concho Flint (110-120 days) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eZea mays\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe are grateful to share this beautiful heirloom from a nice crop grown by Dan Hobbs at Pueblo Seed in Colorado. Corn is strongly adapted to latitude, so when we grew this SW corn in Oregon it grew very tall (10-12’) and produced ears late. So, unless you are closer to 35 degrees Lati\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etude, then allow for a very long season for this strain to mature. Maize de Concho is included in the Slow Food Ark of Taste collection because it has been used for preparing Chicos, a method of cooking involving harvest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eing at the green (milk) stage and prepared via an ancient technique through roasting in an earthen oven called an “Horno”. Chicos are still made by residents of the Upper Rio Grande and San Luis Valley where there is a revival of this endangered regional food in Acequia communities. This is an ancient flint type of corn that can periodically revert back to ancestral phenotypes indicative of its wild parentage from Teosinte. Ears are 9-14” long with pale, shell-white kernels. 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Much like it’s Painted Mountain origins, Papa’s Blue is a short stature (4-5’), very early maturing flour corn with great culinary qualities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePacket:  One Ounce (≈ 110 seeds)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Seeds Farm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34264731222147,"sku":"CO33","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1095\/8052\/products\/Corn_Papa_sBlue2.jpg?v=1607062586"},{"product_id":"corn-montana-morado-maize","title":"Corn, Montana Morado Maize","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"LTR\" align=\"CENTER\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eMONTANA MORADO MAIZE (90-100 days)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"LTR\" align=\"CENTER\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eZea mays\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eThis striking black corn flour corn is an elite super food with extraordinarily high levels of anthocyanins, pigments which may act as an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory for health \u0026amp; healing. Its astonishingly soft flour starch is preferred for countless food purposes, grinds easily to make the best cornbread and tortillas! Very fast maturing plants are easy to grow, about 5 feet tall. They yield long, slender ears with 8 uniform rows of shiny black kernels.  Food security for climate change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e \u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eCreated\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e \u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ein short-seasoned, climate-stressed Montana, this efficient, hardy corn matures quickly.  This naturally diverse open-pollinated corn population is capable of adapting to different locations \u0026amp; you can grow it year after year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eThe purple and black Morado corns of Peru have attracted international interest in the medical community which found that the pigment (anthocyanins) have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties for human health and healing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e \u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eThey help remove toxins and stop the aging of cells.  They have healing properties for a long list of diseases.  For people who get no fresh fruits nor veggies for 8 months of the year, pigmented corn is their only source of these anthocyanins.  Black corn has been tested to show 10 times the antioxidant power as blue, which itself is very high.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e The darker the better.  Heal yourself with food!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eBefore the healing value of corn pigments was ever discovered, Dave, led by a vision, began selecting for a black corn out of his Painted Mtn. population.  Then 35 years ago Dave found a gene for black kernels in Navajo Indian Corn which he bred into his population to create a separate strain, Montana Morado Maize (MMM).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eIt turns out that this Navajo black corn has a unique second layer of pigment (aleurone as well as pericarp), found nowhere else in the world.  As expected Dave’s MMM tested significantly higher for antioxidant capacity than the popular Morado corns from Peru, or any Morado corns with ancestry from South America. MMM has 100% Native North American ancestry. A Navajo elder told Dave that “Black is for healing”.  They knew it before we did!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eMMM is very similar to Painted Mountain Corn. It grows about the same but with a little higher percent of plants that are larger, stronger and therefore a little slower to mature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eThis corn is the product of 35 years of careful breeding to select for as many multiple pigment boosting genes as possible before releasing it to the world.   This project has been highly publicized as people have watched it’s progress and awaited it’s release.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eIt matures to dry grain in 110 days in Montana. 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However Dave does advance them every year through rigorous selection and breeding.  Each new year you can expect the nutrition, beauty and plant structure to advance.  So there will be benefits to buying new seed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eAll Dave’s lines are organic and non-GMO.  They were created by natural, traditional breeding methods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"en-us\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eAll have been grown long distances away from other corn pollen contamination. 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Enjoy these incredible and beautiful varieties!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBundle and save 10% off the individual packet price!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siskiyou Seeds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45292053921923,"sku":"BUCOPL01","price":44.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1095\/8052\/products\/Cornmandala.jpg?v=1671568260"},{"product_id":"three-sisters-patch-seed-bundle-copy","title":"Three Sisters Companion Bundle","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.8em;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBundle and save 14% off the individual packet price!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a collection of 8 packets:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Sweet Corn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Flour Corn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Pole Beans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Winter Squash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Flower \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the perfect starting point to growing your own 3 Sisters staple crop garden. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSee below for more background information:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThree Sisters Companion Planting\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three Sisters approach to growing corn, beans, and squash together as a polyculture developed in the arid Southwestern USA. In the sandy soils there, the early indigenous farmers would poke a hole with a planting stick 8-12” deep and pour the seeds of corn, pole beans and winter squash all into the same hole to encourage them to root where there was residual moisture. The corn, being a monocot would push up first and the beans and squash later, ensuring that they wouldn’t topple the corn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Corn in clumps spaced 6-8 feet apart while the beans climbed its stalks and the squash trailed along the ground providing a living mulch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor most of us, if we were to plant these seeds a foot deep, the seeds would all rot, so we must adapt this strategy to our garden conditions. I suggest planting the corn 4-8 seeds in hills spaced 4-6 feet apart. Once it is 4” tall plant pole beans \u0026amp; winter squash next to the corn plants. This gives the corn a head start so it isn’t strangled by vining bean plants. The pole beans weave the corn stalks together, which helps to avoid the stalks from falling over (lodging). 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