Mr. Brooks Garden

This is Michele and I am working with Ms. Lisa this weekend at the produce shop. I never would have guessed how much work is involved in running a produce shop. We went together yesterday to Mr. Brooks garden and we picked our own corn, it was my very first time picking corn in a garden and I have to admit that it was interesting. Mr. Brooks is a very intelligent man and gave Lisa and I history lessons while we were there. He told me about the history of Sutallee and the founding families of the area. We picked Merit corn and a fun fact about Merit corn is: A while back the Merit corn was the official corn of KFC and when they first started using it there were 24 perfect rows of kernels on each ear of corn. Today it has been cross bread and tinkered with so much that there are usually 16 to 18 rows of kernels in the Merit corn.

Mr. Brooks is a fun man to be around and he is full or interesting facts and information. Picking corn yesterday was a hot task but at the same time it was a fun task because Lisa and Mr. Brooks were there to tell me fun and interesting things about this part of Georgia.