Every year it hangs on doors or is used in some type of harvest decor, but Indian corn (Zea mays), also known as maize, has a spiritual meaning to Native Americans. Ceremonies are performed when the ...

It’s already August, but it’s still possible to plant corn. You can thank the efforts of New England Indian tribes for this late summer option for your vegetable garden. Having received their first ...

They're as beautiful as jewels and often just as precious and rare. The seeds of Indian corn, lined up in rows on their cobs, explode with every known color in fanciful combinations. This variability ...

Taylor Keen's backyard in Omaha, Neb., is teeming with corn, sunflowers, squash, pumpkins and other indigenous crops he is growing to harvest the seeds. Long before European settlers plowed the Plains ...