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    ‘COCKE’S PROLIFIC’ Corn with a Comeback Story

    Mar 01, 2019 5 minutes
    By Chris Smith

    WE DROVE THE BACK ROADS from Asheville, North Carolina, to the Dark Corner of South Carolina. This was old bootlegger and moonshine country, where sorghum molasses was made with forgotten knowledge and seeds were buried deep in freezers like hidden treasure. Angie Lavezzo, general manager of Sow True Seed, drove while I took in the old barns painted red and set to crumble, the poplar and pine trees, and the farmhouses and winding roads. We were on our way to meet local contact Clarence Gibbs, who had sold Lavezzo a couple of pounds of ‘Cox’s Prolific’ corn seed on Craigslist. While we both care deeply about seed, it’s not our standard practice to drive around the Southeast hand-collecting our purchases. This was a special occasion for a very special seed — or so we hoped.

    In 2017, David

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