“The corn is as high as an elephants eye….” So sang the fellow in the musical Oklahoma. 

And what about the old adage that corn was wanted to be “knee high by the 4th of July.”

Folks in days of yore counted on their crop of corn to provide their food and their animals’ food during the winter. And seed for next year. And more…… like corn cob pipes? And maybe popcorn?

Think of all the WORK….. to plant a ginormous field of corn, to keep it watered and weeded, to harvest it, to shuck it and on and on and on. We buy a few ears at a farmer’s market in the summer but mostly we buy nice, clean frozen bags of yellow kernels at the store.

What if you had to raise enough corn to sustain your family?????