IXTENCO, Mexico -- On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he's had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried ...

Thankfully, DeSpain’s recipe for a “Three Sister’s Salad” is a delicious use of those crops, which should be hitting their ...

Farmer Jesus Vargas shows samples of his heirloom corn grown on his farm in Ixtenco, Mexico, Thursday, June 15, 2023. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep ...

Olga Toro Maldonado was short on corn seed and slightly curious. In the spring of 1998, alongside the corn she had always raised on her hillside plot, she planted 60 kernels purchased from the ...

Wildflowers bloom between dried stalks of corn in a harvested field in the southern Mexican state of Puebla. (Cody Copeland/Courthouse News) MEXICO CITY (CN) — Genetically modified corn is not safe ...

Corn was first domesticated eight millennia ago in the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca and Mexico remains the fourth largest corn producer on the planet but its 22,000,000 ton annual yield ...

But most Mexican farmers are accustomed to planting crossbred corn and using fertilizer and other chemicals to improve its yield. Heirloom corn won’t be an easy sell for farmers like Isidro Caporal.