This spring I sent some of the seeds to a grower in Pennsylvania. She recently sent me these pictures. I love that these beautiful corn seeds I started in Canarsie with the Maize Field project in 2010 are still being grown and shared.
I dropped by the Battery Park Conservancy to pick up this beautiful batch of Sehsapsing Lenape blue corn. In the summer of 2014 the Queens County Farmhouse grew the the corn and seeds from that garden were then given to the Battery Urban Farm last year. They grew some last summer and shared some of the seeds …
I planted popcorn this year in my garden plot. This was the result! Maybe I should use fertilizer next year. I don’t think they are supposed to be in miniature. But they sure are cute!
A short history of corn…
On Wednesday I prepped a plot at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum for a Three Sister’s garden of Lenape Blue Flour Corn, beans and squash. I’m excited about this year’s garden at this great place in Canarsie. Wyckoff is the oldest historical home in Brooklyn that is still on its original site.
HUSK set up a table at the Wyckoff Country Fair on Saturday. The Wyckoff Farmhouse in Canarsie is the oldest house in NYC still on its original location. We brought our usual bag of tricks Gowanus Brooms, Lenape Corn, Cornbread, as well as Mugwort Soap and a new corn grinder which turned out to be …
I’m working on a collage of NY Harbor made from 16th-17th Maps from the “Age of Discovery”. The map collage will ultimately be an image for a seed packet I’m designing for the distribution of corn seeds.
I took a ride out to the Wykoff Farmhouse in Canarsie to check out the garden and see how the Lenape Corn that Jason Gaspar, the caretaker, planted. The corn looked great, very vigorous and healthy. He got it in the ground a little late so it’ll be a late harvest. Afterwards I pedaled …
Sadly, I lost a stalk in a recent thunderstorm. But otherwise the corn is doing well. Tassels are slowly lifting themselves out from the leaves. One reason I love growing corn is that it moves at just the right pace. And I also love growing these rare, Northeastern varieties of corn is for reasons described …
In spring of 2009 I planted two rare Northeastern corn varieties for the first time as research for what would become the Maize Field project. And now I’m hooked on growing corn. This is now my fourth season. This summer I’m growing another rare Northeastern variety named Abenaki Rose in my community garden patch (pictured …
Toothsome May 17-June 10 at bulletspace 292 East 3rd St “Toothsome” brings together artists that work with sugar, honey and candy. Rather than being turned off by the materials’ inherent susceptibility to humidity, time, and vermin, the artists instead explore its seductive qualities, its loaded history and its metaphorical possibilities. Sculptures, installations and videos touch …
Another corn project in the works. The beauty and diversity of corn varieties reflects the cultures that cultivate them. What do we make of a culture whose dominant corn variety is genetically engineered and unfit for human consumption until it’s processed into a food sweetener?