Field Corn Harvest - Sept 2022

[@garybeard9071]

Thanks for sharing your experiences with heirloom corn. This is encouraging.

[@deborahrutherford5244]

We grow Hickory King corn. I made hominy out of it. I planted our corn April 2 here in Southern Indiana ours grew 12 to 14 ft tall.

[@HarvestDailyLife]

The fruit harvesting scene looks like a beautiful painting.

[@k.p.1139]

When you save heirloom corn seeds, you want to save the ones that has the "drop ear" gene. That is the purest of the corn genetics of that variety. Go to minute 18:03 that ear had the drop gene. ALL of those need to be inspected, and if they are full and look good, those you save to replant.

[@jram1990]

Glad to see others growing HIckory King. I've been growing it for over 10yrs and it never disappoints. We dry most of it to make nixtamal for tortillias, tamales, and corn churros. Its a great roasting corn too if picked at the right time. Its not as sweet as some of the "sweet corns", but does have a touch of sweetness with a good corn flavor - sort of like eating fresh corn nuts. The trick is to harvest it near the end of the milk stage when the kernals are very juicy and before they start converting all the sugars to starch which makes the kernals tough. We'll process (blanch, vacuum pack and freeze) about 3 bushels of fresh corn on the cob. From frozen: 30 to 40 min in boiling water and we can enjoy Hickory King until next years harvest. My fav toppings: Lime juice, sour cream, salt and chili paste.

[@keithshumaker6402]

It’s the way God made it God Bless everyone

[@DarrylStephens-h2r]

My family, from grandparents to me, I’m 75, have been growing field corn for human consumption. Currently growing Truckers Favorite white corn. We pick and process the corn when it is in the milk phase. Shuck it, remove the silks and wash it. We then grate the kernels on the cob being careful to catch any milk. The lightly grated cobs are then scraped rather forcefully to remove kernel solids as well as the remaining milk. The milk and solids are referred to as “creamed corn”. No dairy products involved. This mixture is then typically cooked in a frying pan on top of the stove. We season with bacon drippings, salt and pepper to taste and finish with butter. This is best served with fresh field peas and corn bread. We typically “put up” 40 or so pints in freezer bags for consumption through out the year.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

wow that sound good! we might have to try that

[@KaronNowalk]

The Babies are sooooo leetle!! 🥰😘🥰

[@joycejones4526]

Really pretty corn harvest. Now about the arm covers. I've been using those for years. I take tube socks, cut the toe off and a hole in the heel for my thumb. I just wondered if someone stole my idea.🤔 I break out when picking beans and okra. Maggie would look cute in a pair and it's a goid recycle for old socks. Love to the family. Be safe and stay happy.

[@keithshumaker6402]

The bird’s got all my sunflowers so I feel you God Bless

[@JamesJones-rn1bf]

My Dad used to raise that hickey king corn , he would cut it off the cone and have fried cream corn it was delicious.

[@Aleata67]

Just seeing this video! Love y’all! Would love some fresh ground cornmeal. 😜

[@donaldwells2102]

Appreciate you Folks sharing your heirloom corn experience with us,now that I've retired from a public job,being self efficient is more important than ever. Enjoy your channel,have a Good Day and God Bless 🙂.

[@sandraenglandful]

Very informative video! I love watching you all ❤

[@keithwood9723]

My grandma Oakley made sleeves like those you are wearing for years. When she was out in the garden she had her sleeves on.

[@glendabenard3772]

Keep singing Maggie. You sound so pretty.

[@sailingfreakshow]

If you haven't already, why not try planting that weird ear aside from everything else. Would be interesting to see if it reproduces and the general yield of it if so.

[@vikkibyington3066]

❤This video was so interesting to me. The corn is beautiful!! Your children are learning from your alls example!

[@sallywasagoodolgal]

You were talking about how hard the commercial corn is compared to the Hicory King. Danny King at Deep South Homestead said that was why he started messing around with developing his own corn variety. He said the commercial stuff was hard on his animal's teeth.

[@charmainevandiford6622]

Seems like I remember the farmers around home when I was a kid planted Funks G69 was some good field corn. I also remember the old timers talking about Gianna Fertilizer made from bat droppings. They said that was the best fertilizer you could get back in the 50 and 60 and 70s. I was born in June the 2 1967 and I have seen a lot of change and not all for the good. This roundup ready corn is just not natural. GMO crops I feel is why People get eat up with cancer. People lived to old age when I was younger. Glad to see you keeping the old ways alive.

[@lesterwatson8519]

In the 30's and 40's around here my dad told me that they raised corn from the bottom of the hollow to the top of the hill. Which around here that would have been several hundred feet wide. But like you said that was their way of life self-reliance. If you did not grow it or make it, you did not have it.

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

I'm going to try gourdtooth corn this year, it's supposed to be a real soft kernel. My Grandpa farmed in IN back in the 40-60's and grew corn until the elevator stopped taking whole cob. He never planted corn in the same field two years in a row and always folled clover or alfalfa. I use heirloom varieties as well.

[@skellym37061]

I would be interested in purchasing some seed corn from your stock.Thank you Megan and Andy for all your video's.God Bless your family!

[@hilltophomeplace6802]

Love, love this video. Your corn looks great. Man, I wish my corn would have made this year. I only got a small amount of Kandy Korn because a storm demolished it. And my Mosby Prolific was green and tasseling until a weird heat event completely fried it in June. I had to take my gardens down and couldn’t grow it for fall because we’re selling our home. Oh well, will hit it again this spring. Y’all take care.

[@hanzketchup859]

Corn is one of the high calorie foods , much easier to process than wheat , a higher yield than wheat , buckwheat isn’t really wheat but grows very fast and is another high calorie food . Calories are needed as much as the nutrient rich greens / fruits / nuts , kinda a balance of the two in the diet rewards you with a healthy life , cheers , a pretty good haul it looks like to me .

[@waynecarpenter3984]

Liked this video. White cobs are as a rule more drought tolerant. White Cobs are also more adapted to poorer soils. White Kernel corn is easier for humans to digest than yellow corn. Those ears that have a slight bend in the middle exhibit a potash deficiency. White cob yellow corns are also more drought tolerant. White cob yellow corns are more sought after by Masa companies for making yellow corn chips because white cobs do not have the red "bees wings" that red cobs do. The red bees wings show up as the black specks in corn chips. Keep up the great videos!!!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Awesome to know! Thank you!

[@coleenburris6816]

Very informative post. Today I was gifted a cob of red corn from the late 70s. I planted six in moist soil to see what the germination time would be. 😂

[@whoaracehorse670]

I would love To purchase some of the Hickory King seed corn. ( I think it’s the kind you and Andy said would be good feed for our animals to eat as well). Thanks and let us know! 😃

[@scentsbyemebathbody3161]

I just started this year with dry corn on our small homestead

[@jbcurdog72]

There is actually a Hickory cane corn, we grew it every year along with silver queen, which is my favorite.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

I always thought that too but I haven't been able to find a hickory cane anywhere

[@jbcurdog72]

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays when I buy my seed this year and I find some, I will send you all some.... it's sometimes called Hickory cane Dent corn.

[@k.p.1139]

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is where I got mine. BE SURE to poke it in the freezer as soon as you get it. I got a couple of different varieties and one had the bugs. When I opened the packages to plant, they were filled with dust and bugs.

[@donnasaylor2778]

Oh I knowyour tired I pulled many ears but my time I can not do this no more I like 10 -10- 10 it will not burn things up I coukd write a book you laugh your head off oh be careful where are my kids gone I write tell you how to put your corn in freezer it’s delicious

[@hazel555]

2024: I planted Aunt Mary's heritage corn for the first time in my WI garden and hope it does well. What I worry about (besides deer and raccons) is those hordes of voraciously-destructive japanese beetles. Do you have them in your garden and how do you deal with them?

[@bobbygaskins7778]

I tried Hickory King this past summer, I used little fertilizer and lots manure. The stalks were 12 feet tall and most had 2 ears per stalk! I think it would be awesome silage corn! God bless

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

yes it would for sure

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Hi from Ontario Canada

[@donnasaylor2778]

I love corn butter sure thing

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

❤Beautiful corn 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽❤🙂

[@dirtfloormotors]

I grew some hickory king this year, just enough to grind and hopefully nixtamal with lime and use for grits or grind the nixtamalized grain into meal, nixtamal is what the ancients did to corn. Anyway I also have been growing my own sweet corn that I saved and planted from silver queen only it has become an open pollinated variant. I have messed with corn for years and 40 years ago I crossed sweet corn with indian corn and had a white corn similar to silver queen that would turn color when it started getting too old to eat off the cob. Corn is different from other seeds in that when you cross it, you get the results that year where if you cross something like a squash, you don't see the results until you plant the next crop. You might want to plant some of that weird ear by itself away from the other corn just to see if it repeats, you could sell it to all the people who want something different.

[@sheilamclaughlin963]

U need a chopper to chop your stalks, a lot of feed there

[@Syndogon]

I know ill get flack or be labeled something but here we go: imo the current stigma of corn is because yes it most strains are GMO which obviously is not good. The other reason is because it's tied to looking down towards natives. It surprised me when some my people are ashamed of being native. Corn is the corner stone of the Americas. Growing the 3 sisters + other vegetables, fruits, green and herbs were very important to each other including the wildlife for them to eat and us to hunt them. Certain heirloom corns have more protein than other corn. I highly recommend your family learn Nixtamalization to really unlock corn's full potential. Peace from the Southwest.

[@bonniehaddock5663]

Your braver than me. Every time I go out with flip flops the ants would eat me alive! The corn is beautiful!!

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

I would be wearing running shoes with socks. Protect my feet.

[@bethmitchell6981]

A really good video. What do yall feed your chickens? We soak feed for them so we won't use so much feed and so they will free range more but that's not happening. Do you have any suggestions to get them to free range more instead of hanging out in the chicken house?

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

If they are hungry they will get out of the chicken house. Feed them later in the day. Just keep them watered.

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

I would plant some small varieties of sunflowers to add the seeds to their feed in the winter, besides corn.

[@marieparks5674]

People jump on whatever new bandwagon comes around. I grew up on a farm and we grew our hay and corn, no gmo stuff. And our animals were healthy and productive

[@paulettagyurik2644]

I think you can grind the corn to make corn flour I enjoyed learning about the corn Momma said they made hominy out of field corn Interested in buying 1-2 ears of each corn you harvested today Papa had a mule and that was the way he plowed his garden

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽Grind corn flour as needed, once ground into a flour it goes rancid rather fast.😊❤

[@johnbyrd4347]

Good to watch any trouble with 140 tractors and still use for farming

[@johnbyrd4347]

I work on them for others all the time great garden tractor

[@vickeypierce293]

I would be interested in some corn I'm glad you tried sleeves. I ran across these the other day and I was wondering how well they worked I did not see a link for corn grinder?? I hope you do a video on how to make the corn meal and grits

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you for reminding me! Totally forgot to stick that in there! pleasanthillgrain.com/country-living-grain-mill-wheat-grinder And yes I plan to and I love those sleeves they really will come in handy when I’m stringing tomatoes next year

[@rustyschackelford9645]

Last year we put out a half acre each of Hickory King and Bloody Butcher as a test/seed plot. We had very similar results. The hickory king out did the red corn 2 to 1. We ended up with about 1400lbs of hickory king we ground into whole cob feed for our steers. All the animals seemed to prefer it over yellow corn feed. The steers gained weight faster and their coat improved. It seems to be much more digestible. It worked out so well we are bumping up to a few acres of Hickory King this year. My question is, has anyone tried picking Hickory King with a New Idea corn picker? I'm going to try it this year and am a little worried about the long skinny ears snapping in the picker. Thanks for the great videos.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

We’ve wondered the same about using a corn picker 🤔🤔 we will definitely be planting more hickory king this year as well, still up in the air on the red corn. Thanks for watching!

[@JamieHumeCreative]

Why are you not eating it roasted, soups etc.? It tastes good!

[@MartieMc]

Hickory King has much larger kernels than Hickory Cane. Hickory Cane has taller sturdier stalks. They are different varieties. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange carries both.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

I always thought so too, but I never could find anything on hickory cane, I'll have to look that up

[@anniepowell1628]

Mawmaw said that she got enough corn for meal and grits through the winter and the rest, Pawpaw and his brothers “drunk-up.” Yep. “Course, as he allowed, they kept the local judges happy.” 😂

[@KathyRusho]

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[@seriousprepper9506]

Corn muffins would be good.

[@troybrodrick7208]

have you tried to plant the corn/squash/and beans like the natives it helps with weeds

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

yes we haven't had much success with the squash but beans seem to do ok that way

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

​@@TrueGritAppalachianWays I guess you plant the squashes all around it, pumkins or others, like an edging, otherwise you would have to leave spaces between the corn. 🌽🌽🎃

[@sharonbrewster3986]

looks like a rocket ship.

[@keithshumaker6402]

Sounds like me you’re doing land race look it up

[@juliannedudley134]

Loved your video and views. I would love to purchase some Hickory King and Jimmy Red. Please let me know if you have some extra. 😊

[@l.pauljohnson2105]

We just bought a small farm in November ‘23. This is my first season growing corn. How do you make corn meal? Grind the whole cob? Or just the kernel? We also have a couple cows. How do you prep the corn for feed? Let it dry out?

[@jacquelinewoodard4707]

We grew up eating fresh yellow field corn , most people now don’t even know what you’re talking about if you say field corn . There is no other corn that taste like fresh fried field corn .Most people have been told field corn is for animal feed only .

[@cherylb.9766]

Do you have enough seed to plant that next year you would have enough to feed the family and your animals? Can you plant that much?

[@brandynash1409]

Did you ever try the cornmeal biscuits?

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

we haven't yet but plan to!

[@bryongriffey2633]

We raised hickory king and stock could eat it better than this hard corn they raise nowadays

[@pmartin6759]

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[@Jennyandersonjenny]

I am so glad to hear you stay away from the gmo roundup corn. Apart from being a scam, with saving seeds, non gmo has got to be healthy.

[@jimharris4740]

ya'll need to check out metcalf mills you tube channel. he makes and repairs grist mills for grinding corn. ya'll will enjoy his channel and he can tell you about corn flour. I see ya'll doing what I did almost 70 years ago and love your channel. keep up the good work

[@tommyperkinshuntingfishing8424]

I will buy some Jimmy red and hickory King if yall want to sale some. We have PayPal. Also would you email Stephanie that link where yall got that grinder please?

[@donnasaylor2778]

Corn is beautiful okra eats me up 🐖🐑🐄🥓🍗🌭🍔🤹🏻‍♀️🎡🎢🎡🎡🎡🎡🎡🎡

[@keithshumaker6402]

It’s the way God made it God Bless everyone

[@keithshumaker6402]

It’s the way God made it God Bless everyone

[@keithshumaker6402]

It’s the way God made it God Bless everyone

[@keithshumaker6402]

It’s the way God made it God Bless everyone