Harvesting the Corn

November 1, 2010

We had tried for several years to grow corn in our garden. Most of the time, we would get a few spindly stalks with no ears, or we would grow great stalks with scrawny ears. This year, after our purple hull harvest, Stewart decided to plant some corn—just to have something growing in the pea patch. We assumed it would do poorly as it had in the past, but much to our surprise, it did really well.

So that meant, harvest time had come on our mini farm. The corn was ready, and shucking it by the pig pen seemed like the perfect place to get the job done. We’d shuck the husks and toss them to our mini pot-belly piggies, Gertie and Hamlet, who eat anything. Then we’d trim off any bad spots and share the scraps with our mini donkey, too. Our little piggies thought they were in heaven as they foraged in the corn husk pile, making happy snooting and snorting sounds the whole time.

Adam came up to me with corn silk on his head and said, “Mom, now I know how they make wigs!” I just love that child’s imagination. If you have to do work, you might as well make it entertaining. Farm kids are just the best, but I may be biased.

Once the shucking was done, my work began. Each cob had to be washed, with the leftover silk removed. Then I filled my largest pot with water, brought it to a rolling boil, and dropped in twelve ears at a time—enough to fill two gallon-size freezer bags. After ten minutes, I fished them out to cool before bagging them up for the freezer. We harvested over 290 ears of corn from that small patch and blanched and bagged about fifty gallon-size bags of corn on the cob.

Thank you, LORD, for such a bountiful harvest.

~Becky~

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