Yellow Leaming and Blue Clarage, each of which gets their own Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey release as a spotlight. Both share the same grain bill of 65% heirloom corn, 30% rye and 5% malted ...

But what makes Whiskey Acres even more unusual is that they distill single, heirloom ... yellow corn variety with Prohibition era roots, and they crossed that corn with a red flint variety from ...

For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep red to pale pink, from golden yellow to dark blue — passed down from his parents and grandparents would disappear. White ...

Heirloom corn—hundreds of pounds in shades of blue, yellow, red—is boiled and steeped for hours in an alkaline solution, a process called nixtamalization. Then it’s rinsed, milled ...

carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep red to pale pink, from golden yellow to dark blue — passed down ...

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 ...

Small farmers in Mexico struggling to preserve colorful native corn varieties are finding new hope in the market. They cite the growing number of consumers seeking organic produce from small-scale ...