Mountain Fresh Sweet Corn | Life on a Colorado Farm

(ALL PHOTOS ARE FROM LAST YEAR–BUT THEY REPRESENT JUST WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS YEAR!)

Our neighbors have started harvesting the sweet corn! Mountain Fresh is grown close to us on our side of California Mesa.

Olathe Sweet Sweet Corn is grown on the other side of California Mesa in the Olathe area.

Either way…our area’s delicious sweet corn is heading to a Kroger/Wal-Mart/or Safeway near you, even as I write!

And NO neither one of these sweet corns (nor any sweet corn) is genetically modified!

They are hybrids! Glyphosate will kill the sweet corn plants.

Hope you enjoy some and when you do…know the ears were harvested some place here on a farm in western Colorado!

Your friend on a western Colorado farm,

Linda

For some reason, just around this time of the day, I can get internet. It doesn’t last long but I can at least get on and post a new blog…and visit some of you. Then it is gone for the rest of the day. Stress, stress, stress.

There was a fire somewhere around Rattle Snake Gulch the other night. I always wonder what starts something like that. Always sad to see a fire somewhere.

This is a very blurry photo of a sweet corn field ….it won’t be long now…soon you will see either Mountain Fresh Sweet Corn or Olathe Sweet Sweet corn in your Kroger/Safeway/Wal-Mart grocery stores. They are advertising for pickers now.

Terry got part of the alfalfa field cut, but he still has at least three more hours to go. They are forecasting rain and thunder here this afternoon so he won’t be cutting today. Maybe tomorrow. Please continue with your crossed fingers. We would like to cut, dried and baled by a week from now!!!

The days are hot here and the humidity high. Drives Terry to distraction, since he much prefers Fall, Winter, and Spring. But I’m loving it.

The sun parted the clouds yesterday afternoon highlighting Hay Stack Mountain. Hay Stack Mountain is at the beginning of the Roubidoux Canyon, which is all part of the Uncompahgre Plateau and just below our mesa. You can See the brush descending down toward the flat lands when then drops right off into the canyon in this photo also.