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Joseph, those ears are stunningly beautiful! You may have answered this before, but... what's your favorite way to eat that corn? Does it pop? Or is it mostly grown for its (not inconsiderable) ornamental value?
Name: Joseph Cache Valley Great Basin Landrace: locally-adapted diversity
Eat vegetables? Huh? I'm one of those farmer's that stops at the grocery store to get supper after working all day in the fields growing vegetables.
It's semi-poppable: It expands about 7 times during popping. A great popcorn expands about 24 times.
I grew the Glass Gem corn because I am easily bored... I'm always looking for new and unusual crops. I'm fortunate to have planted it before it took the Internet by storm. So as soon as I get germination testing completed, I'll attempt to sell the seed. I shelled it today. Winnowing and testing on Wednesday.
Although.... This is the time of year that my skin turns orange: Because I have to cook and eat every squash before I can save seeds from it. I'd hate to pass around seeds from bad tasting squash.
How many among this group grow ornamental (flowering) kale and cabbage from seed? I turned an area surrounding a prominently placed tree into a neat autumn display using these plants and pansies...I'm loving it! Next year I'm planning on starting even more varieties. They're pretty for a long time in cold, fall-into-winter growing conditions.
Yeah, Misti, I think they're all edible. I'll be trying mine...eventually. I've heard that the culinary varieties are tastier, but food's food. It must be pretty good - our ridiculous peacock makes a beeline for my plants any time he can! So...mine are covered with bird netting - not very pretty picture-wise up close maybe, but nice from a distance.
Lacinato kale is my favorite variety for steaming, and I may have some of those seeds to share.
Ah! That was cathartic; I wrote what I actually thought about him, and then erased it! He's pretty, but he's also a giant pain in the neck! If he's not tearing up my ornamentals, he's pulling out or trampling my edibles seedlings.
In one of the threads, (which I've lost track of), Ella wrote that the swap would officially open tomorrow morning at 9:00 am...but, I don't know if that's Central or Eastern.
My database is a long way from ready. Just how ready does it need to be to oink for our first seeds?
Beautiful peacock, Chelle! I've only known one personally, and other than screaming like a tiger while we were still sleeping each morning (there was also a female) and chasing my 12-year old brother-in law and pecking a hole in his nose, I really enjoyed him. I didn't have to live with him though!
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They're pretty for a long time in cold, fall-into-winter growing conditions.
I have a couple of fringed varieties...lovely! 
So...mine are covered with bird netting - not very pretty picture-wise up close maybe, but nice from a distance. 
He's pretty, but he's also a giant pain in the neck! If he's not tearing up my ornamentals, he's pulling out or trampling my edibles seedlings. 
