With names like Hickory King and Boone County White, heirloom corn finds new popularity. A Kentucky hilltop farmer makes it into corn chips, and a distillery has picked its first historical variety.

An Oklahoma man exploring his Cherokee roots discovered a forgotten variety of corn and revived it with help of heirloom seed savers. The revived Glass Gem corn now has 19,000 Facebook followers.

Jimmy Red corn is an heirloom crop that generations of moonshiners knew for its nutty sweet flavor and high oil content. Scientists know it as one of a few plants that could help grow food in the ...

Heirloom corn varieties such as Blue Clarage caught my attention 20 years ago when I was feeding a flock of laying hens and our family ground our own cornmeal. Blue Clarage is deep blue and was ...

But Berenice Pérez, 35, believes the heirloom corn varieties she grows are healthier, as well as tastier. She left Mexico’s capital three years ago and moved to rural Las Mesas in Tlaxcala.

Heirloom corn has a lot to offer modern food consumers, ... "Some of the [heirloom] seeds have been tested, and they were a lot higher in minerals than modern seeds," he said.

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 y… ...

Heirloom varieties make up far less than 1% of total domestic corn production in Mexico. But for the first time in years, Vargas and others are hopeful about the crop. Some in the academic and ...

You've heard of heirloom tomatoes, but what about heirloom popcorn? Here's how this special snack compares to the more conventional version.