The Barton kids started selling sweet corn in 1984 as a summer project. While other kids built lemonade stands, we picked fresh sweet corn. We set up shop in the Meadowthorpe neighborhood and soon realized Lexington's need for farm-fresh vegetables. Every year, we would experiment with new varieties of sweet corn and other vegetables. After 1987, we decided to concentrate on just growing sweet corn. Originally we raised both yellow and white varieties of corn but the vast majority of our customers started requesting white corn. So in 1989, we chose to exclusively grow Silver Queen corn. Its height, ear size and durability made it the ideal choice.

Over time, the original Barton kids grew up and disappeared into colleges, family life and other non-sweet corn careers. The skills learned in the sweet corn business have propelled them forward in accounting, medicine, science, farming and journalism. But now, a new generation of Bartons have come forward to continue the sweet corn tradition started years ago.

Sweetcorn.org is the latest solution to our customer's need for expert advice on sweet corn. Now sweet corn recipes, storage and freezing techniques and even 360 degree pictures of the corn field are available online 24 hours a day. We hope that you find this site useful and welcome any suggestions to make it better.

 

Matt Barton