Four and five hundred years ago as Europeans come into the new world they think of corn as a barbarous as a savage and primitive grain. Nothing could be further from the truth. The history of corn goes back thousands  and thousands of years. In fact, some people think that humans started to evolve or modify corn as many as 9,000 years ago. Click here for a 20-minute video posted on Townsend’s Journal on June 16, 2024.

Jon Townsend describes how this simple grain turned into something that was so incredibly versatile that it could grow in South America, Central America,  and up North all the way to Canada. It could grow in places that were very damp or very dry.

It’s something that needs human intervention for it to continue to grow. If corn is just left wild in a field, it will devolve and stop growing very, very quickly. And yet when it is properly manipulated and developed by humans, corn is so amazingly productive that it’s really hard to believe that one single kernel of corn can in one generation develop more than a thousand kernels.  

(Above) Preparing corn is demonstrated in the video and shown how it might be eaten with venison and maple syrup. In North America, without this commodity the colonists wouldn’t have been able to survive. They got  this information from the Native Americans who’ve been surviving on this  food for hundreds if not thousands of years.