FIRST CORN!. . . (coming late after a wet Spring)
Growing on the shoulders of the former tallgrass
prairie, and displaying a similar growth rhythm to the now relatively rare
signature species of that habitat --
Big Bluestem --, corn is now planted everywhere in the Midwest of North
America. Despite all the irrational
and negative features of this style of agriculture -- depletion of
topsoil (loss of humus and soil fertility),
species loss and degradation, and the complete dependence on(as a kind
of addiction) one-way chemical
inputs -- the sight of a vast field of corn all sprouting at
once is truly a miracle.
(Photograph was made Saturday, the 25th of May, 2002)
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