Cascade Ruby-Gold Flint Corn

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Short, fast-maturing plants are meant to produce a crop of staple grain almost anywhere, in spite of difficult conditions. Makes beautiful deep-gold cornmeal with red flecks, and fantastic flavor. Wonderful for polenta. Carol Deppe bred this to be her own staple food in the Pacific Northwest's difficult summers. She writes:" I bred this corn to be the ultimate survival crop, the variety and crop you would choose if you could have only one variety to get you through good times and bad." Well, that sounds like now........ Plants 5 ½ feet high with 1 to 3 ears per stalk depending upon spacing and soil fertility. Good husk coverage for protection against birds and worms. Very vigorous. Does well even in downright cold summers. Not as high-yielding as later, taller corns, but extremely dependable. This is an OSSI-pledged open source variety. You can read more about it in Carols wonderful book, The Resilient Gardener. 80 days. 60 seeds

The Open Source Seed Initiative exists so that breeders who originate new varieties can protect them from exploitation and patenting by corporations. It means that the breeder has freely given up patent rights in order to keep the variety in the public domain forever. The OSSI pledge reads: "You have the freedom to use these OSSI-pledged seeds in any way you choose. In return, you pledge not to restrict others' use of these seeds or their derivatives, by patents or other means, and to include this pledge in any transfer of these seeds or their derivatives."