Hi Beryl! This is very integral to my culture here in New Mexico and parts of the southwest. Chicano/Hispano and Native families turn this into a porridge, tortillas, etc. as well as make many other things with this type of corn. Thank you for highlighting such a special ingredient of my area♥️♥️
I'm planting Gem corn in my backyard garden beds this year, I don't have a lot of space since I live in the middle of the city but I'm so excited to see what colors grow for me. The Cherokee Nation as well as our local libraries in Tulsa, Oklahoma had Gem corn as part of their seed library inventory this year. I bought seeds from MIGardener ahead of time just in case.
I grow a few Cherokee veggies. My favorite is Cherokee Trail of Tears pole beans. While they are good as green beans we love them as a dried bean the most. They cook up so meat and rich in chili. Second favorite is Cherokee purple tomato. Rich flavor. 3rd. Cherokee wax beans. Big meaty yellow bush beans. I might try this corn next year as baker creek seed company carries it. And last I want to order Cherokee tan pumpkins from deep south Homestead. Its a bit expensive but being an heirloom veggies like the rest I only have to buy it once. Their seed seems to be very robust and a great producer. I'm sure there are more im missing but im bad about writing a whole book in the comments lol
That’s right and good for him! We always kept 3 or 5 of multi colored corn hanging in the kitchen or hanging where we are. I still have it hanging in the dining room of my house. After, I don’t know, 40 years with the same 3 ears, I wouldn’t try to eat it but we would always say that as long as we had corn hanging then we have food. And so we always kept some hanging. And sunflower seeds and and. Thanks Beryl!
My dad grows blue corn it's beautiful and delicious. He got the seeds from Mexico. Thanks to all the indigenous farmers keeping indigenous seeds alive and resisting the Monsanto takeover.
Thank you so much for making these fun informative shorts. With all the smut and stupid mindless videos yours are a real relief and very refreshing! Keep up the amazing work❤
Wow! That is beautiful! Please make a follow up video of popping this corn, eating and reviewing it. I'd like to know how it tastes and if it keeps any of that gorgeous colour after it is popped.
it doesn't keep the color when popped, unfortunately. I've seen other videos of it. well, more accurately, the color is unnoticeable because it dulls and it's only visible on the kernel at the center of the piece of popcorn where you'd normally see a bit of brown.
I actually saw this type of corn in Thailand, and they were selling them to eat, like corn on the cob types. Not sure if it was this exact type or a different one, but it's so beautiful!!!
Thanks for the beautiful history lesson Beryl! Have you ever used Anson Mills products? They make all sorts of grits, polenta, buckwheat products and are committed to preserving heirloom and heritage strains of corn and grain. They have so much more flavor too!
Of course! We used to call it "Indian corn" in th 80s and it came in a variety of colors. More recent variations have become these gorgeous, vibrant mixtures of rainbow colors!
These varna were instrumental to the history and development of biology and agriculture as a whole. They were the vehicle for the discovery of transposons
If you have hbo you have to watch their new series called Julia. Its so good I swear they cloned her to get such a good actress 👏. But I've gotten spoiled. There are only like 5 or 6 episodes out so far I don't have HBO but I daycare my 16month old grandson and while he naps on my lap I binge watch lol
I grew up right next to a reservation in New York and I used to LOVE rainbow corn because we would use it for all sorts of school projects based on learning about native traditions and history. We also were given the option to learn Seneca in school. It was honestly a fantastic thing to teach us at such a young age. Btw I am white and our schools were like 50/50 native and white. Oddly enough that community was the most racist against natives than anywhere else I've lived. I guess I just haven't really been around a lot of native Americans since then so there was none for ignorant assholes to hate.
Oh i Love this i wish we had it in My country i would make a pretty necklace that almost covers THE whole neck those colors Wold be perfect Four a necklace like that
First I would have to order the seeds, then grow it! I've seen them for sale in gardener seed catalogs but I live in an apartment and don't have room for a garden. Sad.
@@annbrookens945 oh now i understand 😆Yeah thats alot i thought you could just go to THE market and dry Them i get what you ment aint Nobody got time Four that but they are truly a beauty 💯
If you want to grow it yourself, make sure you plant your corn plants in a grid block, not in a long row. Corn is wind pollinated so the plants need to be close to one another to successfully pollinate each other. If they're too far apart or not densely spaced, the corn won't swell.
Glass Gem corn has far and away the most beautiful corn kernels I've ever seen! So much more colorful than the "Indian" corn that we grew at home in the 50s and 60s.
I find flint corn very delicious when roasted or boiled while young. But I like to eat corn with firmer kernels that I can pick right out of the cob with my teeth.
I too like my corn to be well kinda corny tasting. Some of the newer sweetcorn is almost too sweet with hardly any corn flavor. Still good but not what I grew up eating. That old fashioned "get the water boiling" then pick/shuck and in the pot in minutes or you lose the sweet type corn lol 😆
Dis you know that "corn" actually translates to "trouser fruit" in Aztec? It is because in ancient times the Aztecs would manufacture trousers from corn for ritual occasions when the gods would not appreciate the usual bare leg situation that was so common in those parts during sacrifices.
Helpful comment! We don't refer to ourselves as "part" anymore, which actually reinforces the pedigree we are forced to carry in this country 🙂. Just "Cherokee". We don't refer to other races this way, so let's not do it to us. Thanks!! 😁
Do you have any advice as to where we could find it? I live in southern VA. There's so much you cook or show us that I would LOVE to try, but there are few, if any, places to find ingredients. I have to drive an hour just to go to a tiny Asian store 😥
I'm not sure if they've sold out this year but baker creek seed company sells this corn and many many Asian seeds. I love their baby boc choi. Especially purple lady. And I'm trying an Asian loose cabbage🥬 with a Japanese name. I received for free a packet of seed called Chinese giant red mustard. It is great as microgreens. It has a spicy wasibi type hit of heat that goes great in home made sushi rolls. Last year they sent me Chinese pink celery too as a free seed. They have radishes and cucumbers and tatsoi and well thousands of seeds. I grew Asian eggplants last year called Chinese string and they were so yummy and easy to grow. This year I saw a little eggplant called Thai Green Frog Fingers. I just had to try it and the plants are doing well under lights until I can get them outside. Just don't yell at me if all your mad money disappears after looking at their catalog lol. 🥰🤣
Hey! Love the information you provide and your Vibe! Just one little note ... Your earnings are the wrong way... Plz don't see it as noting more than as a jewelry designer with OCD that makes me feel a little iffy!!!
@@warrenokuma7264 well when fully ripe its hard like popcorn before you pop it. I'm sure if you timed it just right you could harvest it in the green corn stage. This flint type of corn was grown for grinding or popping or parching. 🥰
When I was a kid, mom boiled some field corn, the kind of corn this is. It was tough and floury tasting.. We usually eat "sweet corn", which, as the name implies, is sweet-tasting and tender.
Pops badly. Popcorn varieties have thicker pericarp - especially at the silk scar. Older popcorn landraces often have pointed silk scar for this reason.
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Love these educational shorts Beryl. Please keep them coming! Oh, but also your other regular videos!!
More to come!
This is great I’m a Cherokee from Oklahoma love to see you sharing a little piece of our history ❤️ love all your videos!
I love corn 🌽!!!
Thank you!!! MEXICO 🇲🇽
Love Your butterfly earrings 😍🦋🦋🦋
Hi Beryl! This is very integral to my culture here in New Mexico and parts of the southwest. Chicano/Hispano and Native families turn this into a porridge, tortillas, etc. as well as make many other things with this type of corn. Thank you for highlighting such a special ingredient of my area♥️♥️
We are so blessed to have an opportunity to learn about beautiful people and their impact on society 💐
I'm planting Gem corn in my backyard garden beds this year, I don't have a lot of space since I live in the middle of the city but I'm so excited to see what colors grow for me.
The Cherokee Nation as well as our local libraries in Tulsa, Oklahoma had Gem corn as part of their seed library inventory this year. I bought seeds from MIGardener ahead of time just in case.
I grow a few Cherokee veggies. My favorite is Cherokee Trail of Tears pole beans. While they are good as green beans we love them as a dried bean the most. They cook up so meat and rich in chili.
Second favorite is Cherokee purple tomato. Rich flavor.
3rd. Cherokee wax beans. Big meaty yellow bush beans.
I might try this corn next year as baker creek seed company carries it.
And last I want to order Cherokee tan pumpkins from deep south Homestead. Its a bit expensive but being an heirloom veggies like the rest I only have to buy it once. Their seed seems to be very robust and a great producer.
I'm sure there are more im missing but im bad about writing a whole book in the comments lol
@@Emeraldwitch30 Your garden sounds wonderful! I'll be looking up some of the varieties you've mentioned.
It's sooooo beautiful! 😍
Nature is definitely putting on a show and showing off with this corn! 🥳😄🥰
That’s right and good for him! We always kept 3 or 5 of multi colored corn hanging in the kitchen or hanging where we are. I still have it hanging in the dining room of my house. After, I don’t know, 40 years with the same 3 ears, I wouldn’t try to eat it but we would always say that as long as we had corn hanging then we have food. And so we always kept some hanging. And sunflower seeds and and. Thanks Beryl!
My dad grows blue corn it's beautiful and delicious. He got the seeds from Mexico. Thanks to all the indigenous farmers keeping indigenous seeds alive and resisting the Monsanto takeover.
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YESS 😍
My boyfriend loves growing the flint corn called Painted Mountain Corn. Such beautiful colors!!
Thank you so much for making these fun informative shorts. With all the smut and stupid mindless videos yours are a real relief and very refreshing! Keep up the amazing work❤
I was going to comment that
Thank you Carl! 🥺♥️
My great aunt and uncle always kept this type of popcorn on hand. It was so magical looking. 😋🌈
Never had seen this beautiful variety. Thank you so much for sharing!
My father always grew this in the garden growing up. He would be happy now if he knew others are aware of it and its history 🖤 thanks
That corn looks so beautiful..
Wow! That is beautiful!
Please make a follow up video of popping this corn, eating and reviewing it. I'd like to know how it tastes and if it keeps any of that gorgeous colour after it is popped.
it doesn't keep the color when popped, unfortunately. I've seen other videos of it.
well, more accurately, the color is unnoticeable because it dulls and it's only visible on the kernel at the center of the piece of popcorn where you'd normally see a bit of brown.
I actually saw this type of corn in Thailand, and they were selling them to eat, like corn on the cob types. Not sure if it was this exact type or a different one, but it's so beautiful!!!
Did you try it? If so how did it taste?
This is definitely a different one. This one is typically used to feed livestock.
Mother Nature at her best.
Thanks for the beautiful history lesson Beryl! Have you ever used Anson Mills products? They make all sorts of grits, polenta, buckwheat products and are committed to preserving heirloom and heritage strains of corn and grain. They have so much more flavor too!
Of course! We used to call it "Indian corn" in th 80s and it came in a variety of colors. More recent variations have become these gorgeous, vibrant mixtures of rainbow colors!
Still call it that ❤️
Yes, same!! I grew up feeding it to the animals at a local farm 😅
Same, I think I'll always call it Indian corn
I taught this to my 1st grade art students in November, thanks for sharing!
So beautiful like a piece of art!
YES!! In my house we had this dried for display
These varna were instrumental to the history and development of biology and agriculture as a whole. They were the vehicle for the discovery of transposons
What an advanced agricultural society Red Indians were is astonishing. Love from Indian to Red Indians. ✌
why did this make me cry lol carl barnes ur my king
Awesome Beryl... You should do a Julia Childs nod in one episode.. maybe make the dishes she made on the comedy chat shows..
If you have hbo you have to watch their new series called Julia. Its so good I swear they cloned her to get such a good actress 👏.
But I've gotten spoiled. There are only like 5 or 6 episodes out so far I don't have HBO but I daycare my 16month old grandson and while he naps on my lap I binge watch lol
Yeah, Farmer Barnes!
Woah! That corn looks so pretty
I grow this in NYC! It’s even more beautiful in real life :)
Beautiful!!
Blue corn 💙💙💙💙💎💎💎
I grew up right next to a reservation in New York and I used to LOVE rainbow corn because we would use it for all sorts of school projects based on learning about native traditions and history. We also were given the option to learn Seneca in school. It was honestly a fantastic thing to teach us at such a young age. Btw I am white and our schools were like 50/50 native and white. Oddly enough that community was the most racist against natives than anywhere else I've lived. I guess I just haven't really been around a lot of native Americans since then so there was none for ignorant assholes to hate.
Beautiful stuff
We make kneel down bread with our native corn.
Whoa. And how does it taste?
Mmmhmmm 😌. Not my tribe, but I've always wanted to try it.
Love this!!
Omg 😱 I’d freak out if I saw something like this.I don’t mind taking this to pride March ❤
That would make a cool looking popcorn
I love that you give the history behind the food items.
Thank you for sharing!
So beautiful 🥰.. Jesus save, bless and use you and the talent He has blessed you with for the Lord's Kingdom always amen ✝️🙇♂️♥️😇🙌❤️💯
Oh i Love this i wish we had it in My country i would make a pretty necklace that almost covers THE whole neck those colors Wold be perfect Four a necklace like that
The first time I saw pictures of this corn, I immediately thought what a beautiful necklace it would make!
@@annbrookens945 really Great minds think alike 😆👍 IF your country has that type of corn i think you should make a necklace it would be a real beauty.
First I would have to order the seeds, then grow it! I've seen them for sale in gardener seed catalogs but I live in an apartment and don't have room for a garden. Sad.
@@annbrookens945 oh now i understand 😆Yeah thats alot i thought you could just go to THE market and dry Them i get what you ment aint Nobody got time Four that but they are truly a beauty 💯
So interesting.
If you want to grow it yourself, make sure you plant your corn plants in a grid block, not in a long row. Corn is wind pollinated so the plants need to be close to one another to successfully pollinate each other. If they're too far apart or not densely spaced, the corn won't swell.
Also at least a 16 x 16 block if you can
@@nmg6248 nah it doesn't need to be that many. I do 4 × 4 most years and it works fine. It just doesn't work if you do 2 rows of 8 for example.
Glass Gem corn has far and away the most beautiful corn kernels I've ever seen! So much more colorful than the "Indian" corn that we grew at home in the 50s and 60s.
My favourite corn is those red popping ones...
The ones that look like big strawberries? I bought that to grow this year with my grandkiddos
Beautiful on cob...however when you pop it, its just like plain popcorn.
I love your earrings!
interesting. i kinda want to see it in its popcorn form
It looks typical 😩
The more you know :) These look beautiful!
Oh my god they're so PRETTY
It’s popular in New England
These corns are looking like stones
Skittles corn version
I’ve seen this corn in Mexico, they made tortillas out of it.
Fun fact, you can buy seeds to grow this corn yourself!
Awesome. Uh is that the guy from honest work meme lol
I find flint corn very delicious when roasted or boiled while young. But I like to eat corn with firmer kernels that I can pick right out of the cob with my teeth.
I too like my corn to be well kinda corny tasting. Some of the newer sweetcorn is almost too sweet with hardly any corn flavor. Still good but not what I grew up eating. That old fashioned "get the water boiling" then pick/shuck and in the pot in minutes or you lose the sweet type corn lol 😆
Yeah, we call it Indian corn. My mom used to grow it, I cant even remember what she used to make with it.
My mother plant it and we always boil it taste still the same but i takes a little bit time than other corn
Dis you know that "corn" actually translates to "trouser fruit" in Aztec? It is because in ancient times the Aztecs would manufacture trousers from corn for ritual occasions when the gods would not appreciate the usual bare leg situation that was so common in those parts during sacrifices.
Me thinking this would be a great stardew valley crop
"Their putting chemicals in the water and turning the freaking corn gay!"
The Europeans in the colonial era were like plague... wiping off anything snd everything that was part of the nature.
Helpful comment! We don't refer to ourselves as "part" anymore, which actually reinforces the pedigree we are forced to carry in this country 🙂. Just "Cherokee". We don't refer to other races this way, so let's not do it to us. Thanks!! 😁
They have found some in Mexico from the Inca times.
Do you have any advice as to where we could find it? I live in southern VA. There's so much you cook or show us that I would LOVE to try, but there are few, if any, places to find ingredients. I have to drive an hour just to go to a tiny Asian store 😥
The website saywee.com has free shipping in the US and you could find almost everything there for east Asian coooing
I'm not sure if they've sold out this year but baker creek seed company sells this corn and many many Asian seeds.
I love their baby boc choi. Especially purple lady. And I'm trying an Asian loose cabbage🥬 with a Japanese name.
I received for free a packet of seed called Chinese giant red mustard. It is great as microgreens. It has a spicy wasibi type hit of heat that goes great in home made sushi rolls. Last year they sent me Chinese pink celery too as a free seed.
They have radishes and cucumbers and tatsoi and well thousands of seeds.
I grew Asian eggplants last year called Chinese string and they were so yummy and easy to grow. This year I saw a little eggplant called Thai Green Frog Fingers. I just had to try it and the plants are doing well under lights until I can get them outside.
Just don't yell at me if all your mad money disappears after looking at their catalog lol. 🥰🤣
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As a kid we called it Indian corn
Flint corn is for eating… flint corn is what REAL corn looks like…
It's called maize.
That's Amaizeing.
Why can't you eat that maize from the cob? Is it toxic?
I wonder what the popcorn tastes like from these corns and are they a different colour?
It pops whitish like almost all popcorn. But can you imagine how cool it would be to pop colors. 🥰
Wait why can't we it if it can be made into flour? I won't like unalive from it right? Corn is my weakness
Hey! Love the information you provide and your Vibe! Just one little note ... Your earnings are the wrong way... Plz don't see it as noting more than as a jewelry designer with OCD that makes me feel a little iffy!!!
I kinda is a shame, that this is not made for eating it from the cob, that would be the most fun!
And why not?
@@warrenokuma7264 well when fully ripe its hard like popcorn before you pop it.
I'm sure if you timed it just right you could harvest it in the green corn stage.
This flint type of corn was grown for grinding or popping or parching. 🥰
@@Emeraldwitch30 Thanks!
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Does de color remain when ground?
No! That’s just the husk which goes away
I wonder how it tastes corn on the cob style?
its not good for eating like that, better for making flour or popping!
Thanks, but what does it taste like?
When I was a kid, mom boiled some field corn, the kind of corn this is. It was tough and floury tasting.. We usually eat "sweet corn", which, as the name implies, is sweet-tasting and tender.
@@warrenokuma7264 like as flour? Just like a typical corn flour
Ah, okay, thanks everyone.
So cool! Also 4th!
Can you roast these?
Pops badly. Popcorn varieties have thicker pericarp - especially at the silk scar. Older popcorn landraces often have pointed silk scar for this reason.
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it's Pride Corn 😁 🏳️🌈