Tuesday 14 September 2010

Harvesting Sweetcorn Video - Part One

I had a bit of a problem again uploading this short video - so it's been split into two parts. It's interesting that most of the sweetcorn grown here is for animal food and is only picked when it's really ripe and all the sugars have converted to starch. Nothing is wasted here... the strong stalks are used for various purposes (maybe more about that later when we find out what exactly they do do with them) and even the empty cobs (the part that's left when the corn has been taken off) are burnt in the wood stoves to help get the fire started.

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