The “world’s largest corn maze” is opening now. Richardson Adventure Farm is located in Spring Grove, Illinois should your travels take you there. The maze trails are 9-10 miles spread through 28 acres. This year’s trails feature James Bond. Check out their website for more information, fun quizes, and a chance to try your skills at maze trivia. You can also see both the actual maze and the drawing based on which it was built.

And there’s also one of my favorites, the Corn Palace in Idaho. While the mural is already up, the Corn Cam does run 24/7. So far, I have always managed to miss the people installing the corn cobs that are used to create the murals but I think it must be pretty interesting.

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On twitter today I saw a tweet about glass gem corn along with a beautiful photograph, which you can see here.

The tweet says: “Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.” Native Seeds Search has the full story here.

The corn is incredibly beautiful. It looks to me to be too beautiful to eat! But you can buy the seeds and grow it yourself.

A recent find from The Plant Initiative @Plant_Init on twitter – an approximately 25 minute podcast from the Australian Radio National titled If trees could talk … what do you think they’d say to us? Not that I’ve listened to it all yet. Some of the speakers include Peter Wohlleben (his The Hidden Life of Trees was the first book we read), David Chamovitz (we read his What a Plant Knows), and Monica Gagliano (we’ll be reading Thus Spoke the Plant in 2023) – so, old friends and new.

When we read Sumana Roy’s book, we learned about the Melborne initiative that allows people to write letters to trees. Some links related to that, as well as other topics, may be found in the summary of How I Became a Tree.

It certainly seems like our “Down Under” neighbors are engaging with some of our tallest neighbors, the trees.