Hi guys!! Today is the first day of the month, so let start it with the GREATEST MODD EVER!!, so here I brought you the story of the "corn" this vegetable grow best in the season of May....
When Columbus "discovered" America, there was no corn on board the Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria. Before 1492, no one living in Europe ate corn cakes, corn bread or corn pudding.
They didn't know corn existed. Up to this time, corn grew only in the Americas. Scientist believe corn was originally cultivated by Indians in the highlands of Mexico thousands of years ago. The Indians discovered that corn was good to eat and very nutritious. As Indian groups migrated north they brought corn with them. American Indians were growing corn in many parts of North America long before the first arrival of European explorers and traders. Christopher Columbus and the explorers that followed him took corn back to Europe and introduced it to the world.
Native American Indians taught European colonists to grow many varieties of the corn including yellow, red, blue, pink, and black kernels, often banded, spotted, or striped. In the 1600s, early English settlers found the Indians of present-day northeastern United States growing a hard flint variety of corn that matured early. Other English colonists who settled farther south found the Indians growing a soft-kernelled late-maturing dent corn. As time went on, the new settlers to America began to depend on corn as one of the most important farm crops.
American farmers have always wanted to grow strong healthy corn plants that yield as much as possible. In the later 1800s scientists worked on the development of hybrid corn.
This research led to better varieties of corn and higher yields. Well guys hope you enjoy this little introduction of the corn history... with lots of love:
- Queen <3
- Queen <3
