Jimmy red corn and other types of Native American dent corn.

[buffaloberry]

 Good evening folks! I wanna learn more history of the Jimmy red corn and how it's saved from extinction recently. Did Native Americans use that type of corn since it was among the first ones that came from Mexico to the southeast U.S? And did its sweet and historic flavor reign to this present day? Did many other tribes use other types of field corn such as Hickory Cane, Hickory King and many types of Cherokee dent corn for food and livestock as in decades past? If there's any more historic documented uses of tribal field corn, please let me know. I'm growing some Cherokee Eagle and Cherokee Gourdseed to help feed my goats and chickens this year from my community farm as well as sorghums, ameranths and sunflowers to give them a mighty feast. Take care!

[macmex]

Though corn is supposed to have originated in Mexico, it arrived in the North a long long time ago and the Native American tribes had their own strains for a long time. Most of them were flint. More than 500 years ago, probably more like 700 or 800 years back, the Aztec traded corn with North American tribes. I have only read of the Cherokee receiving this corn from the Aztecs, but can't be sure others did not, as well. They received flour corn from trade with the Aztec and, when crossed with their own flint corn, the result was dent corn. Both Hickory Kin and Cherokee Eagle are dent, so they are the result of this early trade between the Aztec and Cherokee.

I'm not sure of the history of gourd seed corn but I've seen it grown in Central Mexico, as a native corn (highly esteemed) and heard that it was found with Native Americans in the North.

Sweet corn first appeared in the Northeast, among the tribes and was quickly adopted by colonists. I know from experience that they didn't have it in Mexico. I was there when Kentucky Fried Chicken opened some outlets in Mexico City and Puebla. They imported and served their sweet corn with their chicken. It was not well received by my Mexican friends, "What is this?! Corn on the cob is not supposed to be sweet!!!" 

Buffaloberry, you have goats? What kind? Do you milk too?
I am not sure if goats will eat whole kernel corn. I suspect they'd eat it cracked, if they have time to get used to it.


Good evening folks! I wanna learn more history of the Jimmy red corn and how it's saved from extinction recently. Did Native Americans use that type of corn since it was among the first ones that came from Mexico to the southeast U.S? And did its sweet and historic flavor reign to this present day? Did many other tribes use other types of field corn such as Hickory Cane, Hickory King and many types of Cherokee dent corn for food and livestock as in decades past? If there's any more historic documented uses of tribal field corn, please let me know. I'm growing some Cherokee Eagle and Cherokee Gourdseed to help feed my goats and chickens this year from my community farm as well as sorghums, ameranths and sunflowers to give them a mighty feast. Take care!

[buffaloberry]

I don't know what type of goats they are, but they're medium and they came originally from Texas years ago. They were brought up to my farm to feast on weeds, invasive ones. I don't know what type of chickens they are either, just plain white ones that do the same thing as well.