At long last, the harvest is almost complete. Today a group of volunteers helped handpick most of the remaining stragglers.
The farmers continue to express astonishment at the quality of the corn crop this year -- the field is filled with big healthy ears, like bars of gold wrapped in husky paper. Farmer Pete says he believes this is the best corn harvest in the history of Howell Farm. All told, between all the fields of feed corn, popcorn and sweet corn, he figures that nearly 100,000 ears of corn were handpicked by Howell Farm's staff and many many volunteers.
At long last, the harvest is almost complete. Today a group of volunteers helped handpick most of the remaining stragglers.
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The Furrow is the online newsletter of The Friends of Howell Living History Farm. We will be updating this site about once a week with crop reports and other insights into life on a horse-drawn living history farm. Archives
June 2015
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