> Most of the specialty maize varieties have a similar origin story, usually with some drama about the "last owner" or "one field left". Most of them? You've

> Most of the specialty maize varieties have a similar origin story, usually with some drama about the "last owner" or "one field left". Most of them? You've been seeing tons of these articles about heirloom corn? Show me. This is common with most heirloom plants -- usually a small cluster lives on somewhere. I find it hard to believe it's an ad for whiskey when it's written by NPR; if anything, it's NPR trying to find southern farm news to appeal to certain parts of the US that would otherwise be outside of the NPR demographic.