Corn

All over the country

Corn is a native American plant that feeds our country. The native diet of corn, beans and squash (3 sisters) sustained. Our modern corn had been bred for inductrial farming. It symbolizes American ingenuity and our power to feed, but is also a subsizided crop that leads to corn syrup and overconsumption of starches and sugars by Americans. It's a food conundrum. Fields of monocultured corn are a modern American icon but what are its more ancient origins and can we find a more sustainable existence by changing our relationship to corn?

Laura