Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Dr. David Bradshaw’s love of heirloom vegetables and his easy-going nature made other vegetable growers want to share their family seeds with him, too. Mr. Oliver Ridley from Mountain Rest grew John Haulk Corn for over fifty years and presented seeds to the SC Botanical Garden and Bradshaw Collection in 1992 and it’s availabale through the Bradshaw heirloom collection. This corn grows to be fifteen feet tall and is wonderful when dried and ground up for cornmeal. Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills read about this corn in old documents and realized that it was ground after it froze in the field – a technique he adopted to protect the flavor of his ground corn from the heat of the milling process. Now Anson Mills continues to use that cold ground technique to produce corn meal and grits with a delicious corny taste.
"John Haulk" Corn Makes Great Grits
