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[Bugbear]

What will you do with the blue corn once it's all hairsted?

I am multiplying my seed stock for now; I started with a "bottle neck" genom of fourty seeds or kernels. Each ear goes in a labeled envelope until the next season (late January or February), then the best looking kernels will be selected and replanted. Over time I will select out different plants with interesting or useful phenotypic expressions to develop different varieties, but generally attempt to keep the gene pool diverse and healthy, just as has been done for hundreds and hundreds of years. Hopefully, I will be able to grow enough plants to do all of that and also be able to nixtamalize and mill some of the corn into food. The ears can also be eaten, before drying down, just as sweet corn is eaten, though with a starchy rather than sweet flavor and not quite as many available nutrients.

I guess you could think of it this way. If the Scots had bred a certain sheep long, long ago that produced a certain type of wool and made yarn then kilts from it, one might want to raise those sheep, rather than a new and improved spider sheep that spins it's own yarn out the back, if one were into making yarn and raising sheep as a connection to the past. They recorded information about themselves in that selective breeding process; it would have taken generations of sheep breeders to arrive at that type of sheep and wool, so it is a tradition recorded in the phenotypic expression of the genes of that particular breed of sheep that had a useful and appealing quality to those people. Fast forward to the yarn maker in the here and now. He or she is now sharing in that tradition hundreds of years later in being influenced by those phenotypic expressions developed by the people of the past. The people who made and developed the type of sheep and wool, as well as the exact way they used it, may be completely unknown to us now, except by that phenotypic expression that has reached across generations and hundreds of years. You would also research as much of the known history of that time period as you can get your hands on. I'm not a sheep, yarn, kilt, and wool expert.

That is what I am doing with my project; though I am not an expert in that either.